Christopher Hitchens Quotes
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.
Hitchens, Christopher. Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports. Hill and Wang, 1988.
Tojo objected to his being tried for war crimes by the victor’s moral standards as opposed to one that would be universally agreed to. Many of the Japanese as many of the German war criminals believed that their actions were appropriate and not crimes at all. That is the difficulty when a regime comes to power with its own standards of morality and then wages aggressive war and imposes it upon others.
Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-American intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic, who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist and columnist. He wrote, co-wrote, edited or co-edited over 30 books, including five of essays on culture, politics and literature. Having contributed to several publications, he is broadly regarded as one of the most influential atheists of all time.
