If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's annihilation of music and culture?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face. . . . What they abominate about ‘the West,’ to put it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Half the published articles on Gaza contain a standard reference to its resemblance to a vast open-air prison (and when I last… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our primeval ancestors were by no means atheistic: they raised temples and altars and offered the requisite terrified obsequies and sacrifices. Their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So I close this long reflection on what I hope is a not-too-quaveringly semi-Semitic note. When I am at home, I will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
