
Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916), p. 37
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
Source: The Causation and Treatment of Psychopathic Diseases (1916), p. 37
“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.”
The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Context: Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man's genetic lineage—the notion that a man's intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.
Interview (January 1965?)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Context: I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.
“Well, everybody got stupid now and then, especially in war.”
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 17 “Steel” (p. 306)
Reception in Winder, Georgia, September 11, 2003. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/03_09_11reception.htm.
2009