Quote by Christopher Hitchens
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accompl

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. – Christopher Hitchens

Other quotes by Christopher Hitchens

The term the American Left is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isnt really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. – Christopher Hitchens

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Politics
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In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. – Christopher Hitchens

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relationship
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Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. – Sallust

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great

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. – John Adams

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great

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others. – Plato

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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. – Ernest Hemingway

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4 – Bible

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Peace

People spend hours constantly checking and tweeting and Facebooking. And its cool to check up on your friends and see whats going on in the world, but its not cool to spend five hours of your day on the computer looking at the Internet. – Ty Segall

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cool

He that does good to another does good also to himself. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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good

There is no more defiant denial of one mans ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. – Gail Sheehy

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Prostitution