Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Security

Quotes about: Security

• The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Giving, Risk, Want

• How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How sure am I of my own views? Don't take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you're bound to be okay, because you're in the safely moral majority.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Views, Feelings

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'Freedom of speech means freedom to hate'". Christopher Hitchens' remarks at University of Toronto's Hart House Debating Club, blog.skepticallibertarian.com. November 2006.

• Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Refuge, Consensus, Security

  "Christopher Hitchens: 'Freedom of speech means freedom to hate'". blog.skepticallibertarian.com. September 30, 2014.

• The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Loss, Trade, Eternal Vigilance

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