Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Courage, Selfish, Science

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

• Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting to them. If the British left, which she froze into immobility like Medusa, could bring itself to learn from this, then we might not have to look upon her like again.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Power, Majority, Medusa

• Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Selfish, Compassion, Mammals

  Christopher Hitchens (2005). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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