The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At the time, the United States had an attorney general named John Ashcroft, who had stated that America had “no king but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I'm not as I was but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who's young… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The North Korean state was born at about the same time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and one could almost believe that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A man knows, not only that he now is, but also that there was a time when he did not exist; consequently… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by. No plan is then too… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“here is something that is impossible for anyone to believe. The human species has been in existence as Homo sapiens for (let… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize… — 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
![“This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3b5/christopher-hitchens-117_abolition_this-huge-and-terrible-industry-the-slav_2271791.jpg)
![“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/53d/christopher-hitchens-117_age_o-ne-has-to-have-endured-a-few-decades-b_1102939.jpg)
