If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the… — 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
“One of my first reservations about Zionism was and is that, semiconsciously at least, it grants the anti-Semite's first premise about the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or… — 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
“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
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders.… — 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
It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Well, I was able to write in further reply to Dennis Prager, now you have your answer. The nineteen suicide murderers of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Actually—and this was where I began to feel seriously uncomfortable—some such divine claim underlay not just 'the occupation' but the whole idea… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The important but delayed realization will have to come: Israeli Jews are a part of the diaspora, not a group that has… — 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
“The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — 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
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — 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
“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have the impression that if the "armchair generals" arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about… — 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 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
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