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"Political correctness' is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate."
"You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young."
"I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege."
"I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege."
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
"Yousef had been lighthearted during his questions, but there was something very serious and sad under his smile, and Alan knew what it was. It was the knowledge that there would be no fighting, and there would be no struggle, no stand taken, and that the two of them, because they were not lacking materially, because despite injustices in their countries they were the recipients of preposterous bounty, would likely do nothing. They were content, they had won. The fighting would be done by others, elsewhere."
"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."
"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."
Explore more quotes by Christopher Hitchens
"One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point."
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."
"A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends."
"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
"Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet."
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