"High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments." ― Christopher Hitchens Topic(s): Great More From Christopher Hitchens "I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death." "Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it." "If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women." More In Great "There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power."― Honore de Balzac "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."― Aristotle "Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown… There’s something so hopelessly gross and vile about him it’s hard to take him seriously."― Maurice Sendak