Christopher Hitchens

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

— Christopher Hitchens

“...the razor of Ockham is clean and decisive.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life.”

— Christopher Hitchens

It doesn't take much to make me angry.

— Christopher Hitchens

You can't have occupation and human rights.

— Christopher Hitchens

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

— Christopher Hitchens

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens

“And now behold what this pious old trout hath wrought.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

— Christopher Hitchens

Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled...

— Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Everyone has a little book in them, and in most cases, that is where it should stay.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Which mere primate is so damn sure that he can know the mind of god?”

— Christopher Hitchens

“I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon…”

— Christopher Hitchens

If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which…

— Christopher Hitchens

“To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy’s father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just…

— 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

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person…

— Christopher Hitchens

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The unspooling of the skein of the genome has effectively abolished racism and creationism, and the amazing findings of Hubble and Hawking…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Well, I was able to write in further reply to Dennis Prager, now you have your answer. The nineteen suicide murderers of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Like the Nazis, the cadres of jihad have a death wish that sets the seal on their nihilism. The goal of a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the…

— 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

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

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

— Christopher Hitchens

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is the fantastic realization of the human essence because the human essence has no true reality.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

— Christopher Hitchens

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

— Christopher Hitchens