# Unacknowledged Legislation

- Author: [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md)
- Quotes: 4
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/unacknowledged-legislation

## Quotes

> That phrase, "loss of innocence," has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.

> Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.

> The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

> All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.