Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• 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

  Enemy, Want, Action

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• I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Enemy, Devil, Renounce

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

• The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Taken, Enemy

• It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Growing Up, Revenge

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.1598, Atlantic Books Ltd

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