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Doe Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.
- I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture,…
- In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day…
- I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.
- I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
- 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's…
- Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
- The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we…
- An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is…
- People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
- Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an…
- Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
- The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one.…
- If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
- The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi