Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiring, Friends, Existence

• A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love, Beautiful, Zero

  "Terrorists Ain't What They Used To Be" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 15, 2006.

• Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Values

  "The Free Market Cargo Cult (1990)". "For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 1993.

• If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cheer, Mean, People

• Hannah Arendt in her study of totalitarianism borrowed from Immanuel Kant the concept of radical evil, of evil that's so evil that in the end it destroys itself, it's so committed to evil and it's so committed to hatred and cruelty that it becomes suicidal. My definition of it is the surplus value that's generated by totalitarianism. It means you do more violence, more cruelty than you absolutely have to to stay in power.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Suicidal, Mean, Evil

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin