#christopher hitchens

[liberalsarecool]

We created the United States, not the Church of America. We said President, not King.

#christopher hitchens

[garadinervi]

Blaming the Victims. Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens, Verso, London and New York, NY, 1988

Contributors: Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, G.W. Bowersock, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Muhammad Hallaj, Rashid Khalidi, Peretz Kidron, and Elia Zureik

#graphic design #history #historiography #book #cover #book cover #edward w. said #edward said #christopher hitchens #ibrahim abu lughod #g. w. bowersock #noam chomsky #norman g. finkelstein #muhammad hallaj #rashid khalidi #peretz kidron #elia zureik #1980s

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"The Catholic Church is a medieval relic that should have no place in the modern world." -- Christopher Hitchens

#Christopher Hitchens #catholic church #catholicism #catholic #roman catholic #religion #religion is a mental illness

[fuckyeahreligionpigeon]

#atheism #buddhism #christianity #judaism #islam #catholicism #mormonism #baptist #jehovah witness #scientology #Religion #Christopher Hitchens

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

“Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.” — Christopher Hitchens

#Christopher Hitchens

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

- Christopher Hitchens

#hitchens #christopher hitchens #quote #politics #ideology #totalitarianism #left vs right #left totalitarianism #right totalitarianism #totalitarian state #freedom #liberty #freedom of speech #society #culture #icon

[ma-pi-ma]

I proprietari di cani avranno notato che se forniscono cibo, acqua, riparo e affetto ai loro cani, questi penseranno che i loro proprietari siano delle divinità. Mentre i proprietari di gatti sono costretti a rendersi conto che se forniscono cibo, acqua, riparo e affetto ai loro gatti, questi traggono la conclusione di essere delle divinità.

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Christopher Hitchens

#christopher hitchens #gatto #new york

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Israelites eating the passover lamb :: Marc Chagall :: 1931

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“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the New Testament—the transmutation of water into wine during the wedding at Cana—is a tribute to the persistence of Hellenism in an otherwise austere Judaea. The same applies to the seder at Passover, which is obviously modeled on the Platonic symposium: questions are asked (especially of the young) while wine is circulated. No better form of sodality has ever been devised: at Oxford one was positively expected to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied. It's not a coincidence that Omar Khayyam, rebuking and ridiculing the stone-faced Iranian mullahs of his time, pointed to the value of the grape as a mockery of their joyless and sterile regime. Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

#passover #Marc Chagall #quotes #Christopher Hitchens #memoir #human #humanity

[self-hating-zionist]

“If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine, then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.”

Christopher Hitchens was a British journalist and author who wrote 18 books on faith, culture, politics, and literature.

In an interview with Charlie Rose on November 6th, 2001, he expressed his dislike/ for the original concept of Zionism and his advocacy for a Palestinian homeland.

#christopher hitchens #gaza #free palestine

[memphisfoodnotbombs]

Christopher Hitchens talking about Henry Kissinger

#henry kissinger #rip kissinger #kissinger is dead #kissinger down #fuck kissinger #kissinger is finally dead #rest in piss kissinger #rot in hell kissinger #kissinger is fucking dead #kissinger died #christopher hitchens #food not bombs #foodnotbombs #anarchist #anarchism #anarchy #food is a human right #foodisaright

[liberalsarecool]

I miss Christopher Hitchens.

#religion #no religion #freedom from religion #christopher hitchens

[garadinervi]

Edward W. Said, The Essential Terrorist, in Blaming the Victims. Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, Edited by Edward W. Said and Christopher Hitchens, Verso, London and New York, NY, 1988, pp. 149-158 (text here)

#graphic design #history #historiography #book #edward w. said #edward said #christopher hitchens #verso #the nation #1980s #2000s

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Religion is not provided to us by revelation. It doesn’t come from the heavens. It doesn’t come from the beyond. It doesn’t come from the divine. It’s man-made, and it shows. It shows very well that religion is created, invented, imposed by a species half a chromosome away from the chimpanzee. It shows, doesn’t it?" -- Christopher Hitchens

#Christopher Hitchens #divine revelation #religion is man made #god is man made #man made god #obvious fiction #religion #religion is a mental illness

[nando161mando]

#christopher hitchens #atheist #atheism #gods #religion #science #dogma #facts #book quotes #quotes #quoteoftheday #book quote #life quote #beautiful quote #quote #quotable #bible nonsense #anti religion #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #religious #religious trauma

[classicalliberalleague]

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

—Christopher Hitchens

#Christopher Hitchens #tolerance

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Notice the way in which people show their gullibility and their herd instinct, and their wish - or perhaps their need - to be fooled. Credulity may be a form of innocence, but it provides a standing invitation for the wicked and the clever to exploit their brothers and sisters.

Christopher Hitchens

Whose taking bets when the Woke fever will break and then try and find anyone who actually believed in it in the first place?

#hitich #hitchens #christopher hitchens #quote #mass movements #woke #anti-woke #social contagion #society #herd #sheep #mass delusion #gullibility #virtue signalling #credibility #exploitation #ideas #delusions