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

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.

— Christopher Hitchens

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

— Christopher Hitchens

“English muffin," a confection so grim that it could not have been sold in England even in wartime.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.”

— Christopher Hitchens

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

— Christopher Hitchens

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

— Christopher Hitchens

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

— Christopher Hitchens

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the…

— Christopher Hitchens

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals…

— Christopher Hitchens

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living…

— Christopher Hitchens

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Thus did I begin to see, or thought I began to see, how the British Conservatives kept the fierce, irrational loyalty of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have often noticed that nationalism is at its strongest at the periphery. Hitler was Austrian, Bonaparte Corsican. In postwar Greece and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Don’t be afraid to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[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

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

— Christopher Hitchens

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

— Christopher Hitchens

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or…

— Christopher Hitchens

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other…

— Christopher Hitchens

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

— Christopher Hitchens

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

— Christopher Hitchens

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

— 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

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

— Christopher Hitchens

“he amended the thought to say that men were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,” thus”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“[He]said something that made it impossible to continue working for him.[The exact words were]You're fired.”

— Christopher Hitchens