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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WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? – Christopher Hitchens

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The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. Its a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. – Christopher Hitchens

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

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Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the males superiority. – Simone de Beauvoir

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This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. Its not politically viable its not morally right its just not going to happen. – Michael Bloomberg

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