What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its na... - Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
"What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition."
More quotes by Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
"Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model."
"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."
"Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray."
"I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me."
"What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence."