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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
– Christopher Hitchens

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  2. The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. – Christopher Hitchens
  3. Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  4. In essence, Satan doesn’t want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you. – Ralph Harris
  5. I think she’s too single for me, and she thinks I’m with two other people. She also thinks she thinks, I think. – Will Advise
  6. Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  7. The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. – Christopher Hitchens
  8. The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. – Christopher Hitchens
  9. That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
  10. A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends. – Christopher Hitchens
  11. I think that people’s sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. – Christopher Hitchens
  12. Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return. – Christopher Hitchens
  13. Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula? – Christopher Hitchens
  14. What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. – Christopher Hitchens
  15. Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. – Christopher Hitchens
  16. The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them. – Christopher Hitchens
  17. The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus. – Christopher Hitchens
  18. You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too. – Christopher Hitchens
  19. Don’t write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself. – Christopher Hitchens
  20. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. – Christopher Hitchens
  21. Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. – Christopher Hitchens
  22. There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet. – Christopher Hitchens
  23. Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock. – Christopher Hitchens
  24. The finest fury is the most controlled. – Christopher Hitchens
  25. The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. – Christopher Hitchens
  26. The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). – Christopher Hitchens
  27. The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. – Christopher Hitchens
  28. Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery. – Christopher Hitchens
  29. Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared. – Christopher Hitchens
  30. If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is. – Christopher Hitchens
  31. The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
  32. Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form. – Christopher Hitchens
  33. I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. – Christopher Hitchens
  34. The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it’s your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you – Christopher Hitchens
  35. To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. – Christopher Hitchens
  36. In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. – Christopher Hitchens
  37. The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies. – Christopher Hitchens
  38. The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. – Christopher Hitchens
  39. When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. – Christopher Hitchens
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