“The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.” Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)

Christopher Hitchens
Author

Christopher Eric Hitchens was an Anglo-American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious and literary critic, social critic, and journalist. Wikipedia

Born: April 13, 1949, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Died: December 15, 2011, Houston, Texas, United States
Spouse: Carol Blue (m. 1991–2011), Eleni Meleagrou (m. 1981–1989)
Children: Antonia Hitchens, Alexander Hitchens, Sophia Hitchens

Quotes

• What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
• Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
• The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.