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A quotation from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair

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A quotation from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair

More about this quote: wist.info/hitchens-christopher…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christopherhitchens #arbitrariness #capriciousness #inconsistency #injustice #law #lawenforcement #legalsystem #tyranny #unpredictability

A quotation from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair

More about this quote: wist.info/hitchens-christopher…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christopherhitchens #arbitrariness #capriciousness #inconsistency #injustice #law #lawenforcement #legalsystem #tyranny #unpredictability

A quotation from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair

More about this quote: wist.info/hitchens-christopher…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christopherhitchens #arbitrariness #capriciousness #inconsistency #injustice #law #lawenforcement #legalsystem #tyranny #unpredictability

A quotation from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair

More about this quote: wist.info/hitchens-christopher…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christopherhitchens #arbitrariness #capriciousness #inconsistency #injustice #law #lawenforcement #legalsystem #tyranny #unpredictability

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday.
-- Christopher Hitchens

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Forgetfulness #Memory

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunrise #SacandagaLake #Adirondacks #NewYork

I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
-- Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ChristopherHitchens #Death #Mortality

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology

Just finished #godisnotgreat by #christopherhitchens. I hadn't finished a physical book in years. Feels good to be reading again :)

#Atheism #deconversion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ2LehsA1dk I don't agree with the title of the video stating the audience member being cocky (he was asking a genuine question), but Hitch is SO badly missed! He called it years ago and it still stands true today. All this foolishness is to do with religion. #hitch #hitchins #hitchslap #christopherhitchens #religion

How #Religion Systematically #Devalues #Women

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_IEx5Lowx0

This video argues that the #abrahamic #religions are codified #patriarchal.
The speakers are #AnnieLaurieGaylor, #SamHarris, #ChristopherHitchens & #DanBarker .

#atheist #atheism #murder #sexism #god

#ChristopherHitchens's #TenCommandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-63cTYJDCA
#Hitchens #deconstructs the ten #commandments and adds a few of his own.
#deconstructionism #atheist #religion #christian #judaism #hitchslap #sundayschool #OT #bible #moses

#ChristopherHitchens's #TenCommandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-63cTYJDCA
#Hitchens #deconstructs the ten #commandments and adds a few of his own.
#deconstructionism #atheist #religion #christian #judaism #hitchslap #sundayschool #OT #bible #moses

#ChristopherHitchens's #TenCommandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-63cTYJDCA
#Hitchens #deconstructs the ten #commandments and adds a few of his own.
#deconstructionism #atheist #religion #christian #judaism #hitchslap #sundayschool #OT #bible #moses

#ChristopherHitchens's #TenCommandments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-63cTYJDCA
#Hitchens #deconstructs the ten #commandments and adds a few of his own.
#deconstructionism #atheist #religion #christian #judaism #hitchslap #sundayschool #OT #bible #moses