Quote by Christopher Hitchens
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how deve

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, its a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. – Christopher Hitchens

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To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens

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Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. – Christopher Hitchens

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. – Christopher Hitchens

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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

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Most people know more about their own elected officials via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbors via conversation, and many know more about the celebrities via tabloids than they know about their own representatives via voting booklets. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

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In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society thats filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act. – Don DeLillo

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Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. – George Santayana

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