# Quote — Christopher Hitchens, Unacknowledged Legislation

> 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.

- Author: [Christopher Hitchens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens.md)
- Book: [Unacknowledged Legislation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/unacknowledged-legislation.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/unacknowledged-legislation/all-the-excitements

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> 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.

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

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

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