"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."
― Christopher Hitchens
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Power
― Christopher Hitchens
More From Christopher Hitchens
- "To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"
- "In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light."
- "Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve."
More In Power
- "Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."― F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it."― John Henrik Clarke
- "Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life."― Jose Marti