Liars Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image “I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Liars Murderer States Taught
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if… — Sukarno Copy Share Image
If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may… — Plato Copy Share Image
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities. One of the most celebrated victims of this theocratic policy was Shelley (1792-1811) who was expelled from University College, Oxford, for writing a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. He and his poetry were much influenced… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself;… — Alison Croggon Copy Share
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
That's good; don't deny it. Denying the undeniable just makes you sound like a fool as well as a liar. In this profession, you… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be working. — Michael Tomasky Copy Share Image
The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
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