Christopher-hitchens Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“I did not make any of the correct political reflections. I never do when things are happening. It seems to be always the case…

— George Orwell

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then…

— Thomas Metzinger

“I’ve never had the luxury of political opinions”

— Jyn Erso

“I did not yet know that, contrary to youth's sense of itself as tolerant, freethinking, and egalitarian, it is more often stubbornly critical and…

— Sigrid Núñez

“...young people...who were casually profane, as though the validation of their own power could be achieved only by their assault on the sensibilities of…

— James Lee Burke

“Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.”

— Peter Prange

“I spoke one time at the Library of Congress, in 1972, or so. A man stood up in the middle of the audience, when…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the…

— Tom Sharpe

“I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.”

— Winston Churchill

“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.”

— Edmund Fawcett

“They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Actuated by no personal motives, but moved only by high and great constitutional considerations; which I will not attempt to explain, for they are…

— Charles Dickens