Christopher Hitchens Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, School, May

• You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mistake, School, Language

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

  Christopher Hitchens

  School, Knows, Compulsory

  "Transcripts and audio: Christopher Hitchens on not believing". Interview With John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 26, 2010.

• I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Military, War, Father

  Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.

• For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, School, Differences

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