People Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

— Christopher Hitchens

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

— Christopher Hitchens

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

— Christopher Hitchens

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

— Christopher Hitchens

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

— Christopher Hitchens

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

— Christopher Hitchens

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond…

— Christopher Hitchens

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

— Christopher Hitchens

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or…

— Christopher Hitchens

People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the…

— Christopher Hitchens

(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.

— Christopher Hitchens

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't say things like "the grace of God." All that's white noise to me, not because I'm an intellectual. For many…

— Christopher Hitchens

For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case…

— Christopher Hitchens

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was…

— Christopher Hitchens

Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's…

— Christopher Hitchens

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her…

— Christopher Hitchens

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness…

— Christopher Hitchens

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they…

— Christopher Hitchens

The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came…

— Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

— Christopher Hitchens

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

— Christopher Hitchens

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

— Christopher Hitchens

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

— Christopher Hitchens

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their…

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

— Christopher Hitchens

The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.

— Christopher Hitchens

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

— Christopher Hitchens

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

— Christopher Hitchens