3 Christopher Hitchens Quotes on Violence

Christopher Hitchens quotes on violence

6. Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

54. If you're actually certain that you're hitting only a concentration of enemy troops... then it's pretty good because those steel pellets will go straight through somebody and out the other side and through somebody else. And if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too. So they won't be able to say, 'Ah, I was bearing a Koran over my heart and guess what, the missile stopped halfway through.' No way, 'cause it'll go straight through that as well. They'll be dead, in other words.

61. The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.