What did Christopher Hitchens mean by: You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too. - Christopher Hitchens Author · England Copy
+ A gentleman is never rude except on purpose – I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Believe, Gentleman, Rude, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Action, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. Feraz Zeid, April 11, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Atheism, Skepticism, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Attitude, Resistance, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Merit, Opposites, Virtue, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Faults, Materialism, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
+ I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Christopher Hitchens, Liars, 0 - Christopher Hitchens Author · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France