Nihilist Quote by Christopher Hitchens Download Open image “To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.” — Christopher Hitchens ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nihilist Opposition
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else. — John Green Copy Share Image
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like deconstructionism are,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
There are things in this world that you cannot oppose, no matter how hard you try. — Dark Zeref Copy Share Image
Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has… — Bruce Springsteen 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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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
Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power,… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
We had the city trying to demolish two of our exhibition spaces, which was at first pretty disturbing. But following the freak-out is the… — Kirsha Kaechele Copy Share Image
Life," Garp wrote, "is sadly not structured like a good old-fashioned novel. Instead an end occurs when those who are meant to peter out… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You go to jail for drinking beer and then walking with your bike. You go to jail for smoking a joint. For abortion. This… — Janusz Palikot Copy Share Image
I think I have in fact been situated in most of the squares on the political checkerboard, one after another and sometimes simultaneously: as… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as… — Momus Copy Share Image
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm very proud that some people think that I'm a danger for the intellectual health of students. When people start thinking of health in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily. — Helen Clark MacInnes Copy Share Image