Christopher Hitchens Quotes

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

You cannot appease fascism by meeting it in the middle; you cannot beat racism by indulging or excusing it.

If you see a bully, stand up to him.

I like to think of myself as a reasonable man. But I have buried too many friends in the too-recent past, and I have seen too many lies go unquestioned, and too many questions go unasked. There is a time when even reasonable men must begin to take unreasonable actions. To do anything else is to be less than human.

You know with a bully you cannot let them slap you around, because they slap you around today, they slap you five or six times tomorrow. We are not going to be bullied.

One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.

A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

If we confront anti-Semitism ... if we combat it individually and as a society, and use whatever platform we have to denounce it, we can stop the spread of this madness.

We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

I just wish I could have all this and stand up to her a little. Rose would." "Rose would have gotten herself arrested for treason the first time Tatiana asked her to do something.