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As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phrases—doublethink, thought police, 'Some animals ar...more

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Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe mo...more

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Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority ...more

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Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meetin...more

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war, it is to be regarded n...more

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Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

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His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary sali...more

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My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And any...more

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His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a r...more

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Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker.

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I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian pr...more

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The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

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I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist group took a consistently anti-Moscow line through...more

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Th...more