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Quotes from Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere — Christopher Hitchens

1949–2011 England

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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (2000)

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (2000)

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (2000)

That phrase, "loss of innocence," has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Hitchens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.