Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Alcohol

Quotes about: Alcohol

• Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Art, Dancing, Alcohol

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

• Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, People, Alcohol

• Cheap booze is a false economy.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Alcohol, Economy, Booze

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.315, Atlantic Books Ltd

• I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Alcohol, Lucky

  "Christopher Hitchens - Q&A (2010) lyrics". Interview with Brian Lamb, lyrics.az. 2010.

• 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 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

  Inspiration, Reading, Home

  "Hitch-22". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. 2010.

• I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian tsumai. It happened around Christmas-New Year. The Muslims of Sri Lanka said 'We knew this would happen because the Christians were using alcohol for their Christmas celebrations.' The Buddhists said 'We knew this would happen because of the horrible Muslim slaughter practices.' It's amazing to see how apocalypse or catastrophe makes people behave primitively.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Christian, New Year, Buddhist

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• 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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiration, Reading, Writing

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.314, Atlantic Books Ltd

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