Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, And War: Journeys And Essays Quotes
In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.
The finest fury is the most controlled.
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.
Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
Bloomberg does not support the measure to silence the useless and maddening car alarm: he would rather impose himself on people than on mechanical devices.
It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.
At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.
In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.