What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?

Christopher Hitchens
Some Similar Quotes
  1. All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. - Unknown

  2. Truth never damages a cause that is just. - Mahatma Gandhi

  3. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. - Criss Jami

  4. You should not honor men more than truth. - Plato

  5. Who you are in public is a test of your conviction; who you are in private, integrity. - Criss Jami

More Quotes By Christopher Hitchens
  1. What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

  2. About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one...

  3. I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim–so modestly and so humbly–to possess. It is time to withdraw our...

  4. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

  5. My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

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