Christopher Hitchens

"Power without accountability is merely organized robbery."

"One cannot believe in both free markets and free people without contradiction."

"The beautiful irony of absolutism is that it must always justify itself with relative arguments."

"If you want to know what someone really thinks, do not ask him; observe what he does when he thinks no one is watching."

"The person who is never angry at injustice has already accepted it."

"One should never trust the leader who claims to know what is best for you."

"To accept the unacceptable is the first step toward tyranny."

"The worst thing about religion is not that it makes people bad; it is that it makes good people do bad things."

"One cannot claim intellectual honesty while refusing to follow the argument wherever it leads."

"The person who has everything has nothing to lose and therefore nothing to fear."

"If you want to see the future of a society, look at what it teaches its children."

"The greatest achievement of Western thought has been the discovery that we do not have the answers."