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Christopher Hitchens — Portrait after a picture by ensceptico (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Christopher Hitchens

English American author and journalist

1949–2011

4 quotes, most often on Politics and Religion.

Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish
- Politics
- Religion
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
“Ireland” (1998).
- Politics
- Religion
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski, 18/11/2010 (closing remarks)
- Thinking
- Wisdom
An incumbent in Washington knows he is in trouble on the day that cartoonists begin to represent him as a king.
The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain’s Favourite Fetish (1990)
- Power
- Presidency

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