Wednesday Wisdom

What you swiftly realize if you peek over the wall of your own immediate neighborhood or environment, and travel beyond it, is, first, that we have a huge surplus of people who wouldn’t change anything about the way they were born, or the group they were born into, but second that “humanity” (and the idea of change") is best represented by those who have the wit not to think, or should I say feel, in this way.

Christopher Hitchens, Letters To A Young Contrarian

Wednesday Wisdom

“I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.”

Christopher Hitchens

Wisdom From Christopher Hitchens

“The high ambition, therefore, seems to me to be this: That one should strive to combine the maximum of impatience with the maximum of skepticism, the maximum of hatred of injustice and irrationality with the maximum of ironic self-criticism. This would mean really deciding to learn from history rather than invoking or sloganising it.”

Wisdom From Christopher Hitchens

“Beware of identity politics. I’ll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics...it was the dense and boring and selfish who had always seen identity politics as their big chance.”

— Letters To A Young Contrarian

Wisdom From Christoper Hitchens

“Those who need or want to think for themselves will always be a minority”

— Letters To A Young Contrarian

Wisdom From Christoper Hitchens

“What really matters about any individual is not what he thinks, but how he thinks”

— Letters To A Young Contrarian