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Rather Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name…
- What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.
- Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
- Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
- One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
- And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I…
- The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
- Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary…
- Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather…
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
- I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish…
- Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
More Rather Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your… — Rowan Atkinson