“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
“Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Among the privileges of being a superpower, the right and the ability to make a local quarrel into a global one ranks… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth? — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and not celebrated until 'Juneteenth'.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember distinctly looking up from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty: "'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring… — 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
“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
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — 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
“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
“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various… — 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
![“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech, though, and he has a vice that's always very well worth noticing because it's always a bad sign: he doesn't know when to sit down. He's worse than Castro was. He won't shut up…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1c4/christopher-hitchens-117_9-11-conspiracy-theo_i-can-see-why-people-find-him-hugo-ch-ve_1701269.jpg)
![“[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an Irish-American and so forth. (Jews for some reason prefer the words the other way around, as in 'American Jewish Congress' or 'American Jewish…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/655/christopher-hitchens-117_england_t-he-hyphenation-question-is-and-always_840076.jpg)
![“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn’t quite recognize”, Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/db2/christopher-hitchens-117_1990s_pettiness-often-leads-both-to-error-and_2898661.jpg)
![“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. For you to say of Nazism that it was the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bbe/christopher-hitchens-117_adolf-hitler_said-during-a-debate-when-his-opponent-a_991808.jpg)
