Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Punishment, Desire, Fierce

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Ruthless and arrogant though power can appear, it is only ever held by mere mammals who excrete and yearn, and who suffer from insomnia and insecurity. These mammals are also necessarily vain in the ­extreme, and often wish to be liked almost as much as they desire to be feared.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Insomnia, Insecurity

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

• I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the superstitious.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Desire, Tasks

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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