• I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.

    Christopher Hitchens: I was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.
    Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5167, NYU Press