Christopher Hitchens

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. ”

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. ”

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. ”

When Caroline Kennedy managed to say 'you know' more than 200 times in an interview with the New York 'Daily News,' and on 130 occasions while talking to 'The New York Times' during her uninspired attempt to become a hereditary senator, she proved, among other things, that she was (a) middle-aged and (b) middle class. ”

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. ”

You can only have one aim per debate. ”

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. ”

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. ”

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' ”

WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. ”