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title: "36 Christopher Hitchens Quotes by 30 authors"
description: "Browse 36 Christopher Hitchens quotes by 30 authors. Discover the best Christopher Hitchens sayings and thoughts."
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> [Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graydon-carter/christopher-hitchens-was-a-wit-a-charmer-and-a-troublemaker-and-to/)

[Graydon Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graydon-carter/)

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> [Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-buckley/christopher-hitchens-is-the-greatest-living-essayist-in-the-english/)

[Christopher Buckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-buckley/)

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> [“Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks “because it makes other people less boring.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-maarten-troost/christopher-hitchens-once-said-that-he-drinks-because-it-makes-other/)

[J. Maarten Troost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-maarten-troost/)

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> [Christopher Hitchens is perhaps the greatest orator ever. He's such a famous atheist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-buble/christopher-hitchens-is-perhaps-the-greatest-orator-ever-he-s-such-a/)

[Michael Buble](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-buble/)

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> [I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/i-have-been-asked-whether-i-wish-to-nominate-a-successor-an-inheritor/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/christopher-hitchens-was-a-great-warrior-a-magnificent-orator-a/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-douthat/what-replaces-christianity-isn-t-going-to-be-richard-dawkins/)

[Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-douthat/)

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> [“The famous atheist Christopher Hitchens once declared that ‘You’re expelled from your mother’s uterus as if shot from a cannon, towards a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-s-crisp/the-famous-atheist-christopher-hitchens-once-declared-that-you-re/)

[Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-s-crisp/)

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> [Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-coady/atheism-is-a-moral-position-a-rather-rigid-one-if-you-ve-ever-read/)

[Lynn Coady](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-coady/)

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> [“Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have all been frustrated by this question: Why is the Left refusing to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milo-yiannopoulos/bill-maher-sam-harris-richard-dawkins-and-christopher-hitchens-have/)

[Milo Yiannopoulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milo-yiannopoulos/)

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> [Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-minchin/christopher-hitchens-s-autobiography-hitch-22-is-a-poignant-read-and/)

[Tim Minchin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-minchin/)

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> [I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milo-yiannopoulos/i-like-whimsy-and-satire-and-that-s-what-americans-like-so-much-about/)

[Milo Yiannopoulos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milo-yiannopoulos/)

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> [One of the people I most admired was Christopher Hitchens. He was extremely polarizing but extremely honest, to a fault sometimes, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-hussey/one-of-the-people-i-most-admired-was-christopher-hitchens-he-was/)

[Matthew Hussey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-hussey/)

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> [ It was a very funny conference. I knew \[Christopher Hitchens\] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilary-mantel/it-was-a-very-funny-conference-i-knew-christopher-hitchens-before/)

[Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilary-mantel/)

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> [“Literary censorship should not be necessary within the parameters of the law because it's simply a reflection of prevailing social prejudices! Writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-tar/literary-censorship-should-not-be-necessary-within-the-parameters-of/)

Jack Tar

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> [I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennox/i-ve-learned-to-distinguish-between-the-greatness-of-god-and-the/)

[John Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennox/)

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> [“...Whenever someone says to me, 'Jerry Lewis says women aren't funny,' or 'Christopher Hitchens says women aren't funny,' or 'Rick Fenderman says…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tina-fey/whenever-someone-says-to-me-jerry-lewis-says-women-aren-t-funny-or/)

[Tina Fey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tina-fey/)

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> [ “One evening, at the time of the Six-Day War, I \[Christopher Hitchens\] had my wicked way with a lovely lady, who had… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-brown/one-evening-at-the-time-of-the-six-day-war-i-christopher-hitchens-had/)

[Craig Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-brown/)

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> [Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johnny-depp/simplicity-that-s-what-i-want-it-s-been-a-rare-commodity-for-me-for-a/)

[Johnny Depp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johnny-depp/)

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> [“When you consider atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, their strongest arguments are “moral arguments” against…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/taylor-r-marshall/when-you-consider-atheists-such-as-richard-dawkins-daniel-dennett-sam/)

Taylor R. Marshall

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> [“If you want to know why the “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Atkins sell so many books, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/if-you-want-to-know-why-the-new-atheists-like-richard-dawkins/)

[N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright/)

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> [“Atheism is an idea. Most often (thank God), it is an idea lived and told with blunt jumbo-crayon clumsiness. Some child of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-d-wilson/atheism-is-an-idea-most-often-thank-god-it-is-an-idea-lived-and-told/)

[N.D. Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-d-wilson/)

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> [“First, because it’s based on a fantastic illusion. Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, we being the higher primates,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-kelly/first-because-it-s-based-on-a-fantastic-illusion-let-s-say-that-the/)

Joshua Kelly

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> [“Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-barron/now-christianity-proposes-a-completely-different-account-of-how/)

[Robert Barron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-barron/)

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> [ “I \[Christopher Hitchens\] moved into Mart's sock—where you lived was your 'sock.' Your rug was your 'hair.' Your knee was still your… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-brown/i-christopher-hitchens-moved-into-mart-s-sock-where-you-lived-was/)

[Craig Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-brown/)

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> [“Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-brown/without-anything-being-said-there-were-no-women-at-our-lunches-not/)

[Craig Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-brown/)

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> [“It is quite clear, whether you read Christopher Hitchens or Friedrich Nietzsche, that the image of God running the world to which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/n-t-wright/it-is-quite-clear-whether-you-read-christopher-hitchens-or-friedrich/)

[N.T. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/n-t-wright/)

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> [“I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeffrey-tayler/i-ve-often-wondered-how-the-term-new-atheism-gained-such-currency-it/)

[Jeffrey Tayler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeffrey-tayler/)

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> [“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karen-armstrong/for-dawkins-atheism-is-a-necessary-consequence-of-evolution-he-has/)

[Karen Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karen-armstrong/)

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> [Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-dawkins/christopher-hitchens-was-a-writer-and-an-orator-with-a-matchless/)

[Richard Dawkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-dawkins/)

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> [Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-comfort/each-of-us-should-think-of-the-future-every-puff-on-a-cigarette-is/)

[Ray Comfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-comfort/)

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> [Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-comfort/few-would-argue-that-richard-dawkins-is-the-world-s-most-famous/)

[Ray Comfort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-comfort/)

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> [Christopher Hitchens and I were not friends or even acquaintances. We never met or spoke on the phone, just exchanged occasional brief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-king/christopher-hitchens-and-i-were-not-friends-or-even-acquaintances-we/)

[Florence King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-king/)

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> [I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-pinker/i-do-look-for-openings-where-i-can-overturn-popular-misconceptions/)

[Steven Pinker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-pinker/)

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> [“Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/incidentally-i-have-also-learned-a-bit-about-the-importance-of/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dinesh-d-souza/look-at-satan-s-reason-for-rebelling-against-god-it-s-not-that-he/)

[Dinesh D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dinesh-d-souza/)

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                        "text": "“When you consider atheists such as Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, their strongest arguments are “moral arguments” against the existence of God. Why are children sold through human trafficking for prostitution? Why does God allow hurricanes to destroy the innocent? Why do babies die? In reality, these are not arguments about God’s existence, but rather arguments about the goodness of God. The atheist first creates scandal regarding God’s goodness, and then rejects Him.”",
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                        "text": "“Atheism is an idea. Most often (thank God), it is an idea lived and told with blunt jumbo-crayon clumsiness. Some child of Christianity or Judaism dons an unbelieving Zorro costume and preens about the living room. Behold, a dangerous thinker of thinks! A believer in free-from-any-and-all-goodness! Fear my brainy blade! Put candy in their bucket. Act scared. Don't tell them that they're adorable. Atheism is not an idea we want fleshed out. Atheism incarnate does happen in this reality narrative. But it doesn't rant about Islam's treatment of women as did the (often courageous) atheist Christopher Hitchens. It doesn't thunder words like evil and mean it (as Hitch so often did) when talking about oppressive communist regimes. His costume slipped all the time—and in many of his best moments. Atheism incarnate is nihilism from follicle to toenail. It is morality merely as evolved herd survival instinct (non-bindng, of course, and as easy for us to outgrow as our feathers were). When Hitchens thundered, he stood in the boots of forefathers who knew that all thunder comes from on high.”",
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                        "text": "“First, because it’s based on a fantastic illusion. Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, we being the higher primates, Homo sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says it may be 100,000; Richard Dawkins thinks maybe quarter of a million. I’ll take 100,000. In order to be Christian you have to believe that for 98,000 years our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25, dying of their teeth, famine, struggle, indigenous war, suffering, misery, all of that. For 98,000 heaven watches it with complete indifference and then 2,000 years ago thinks, “That’s enough of that—it’s time to intervene. The best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don’t let’s appear to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization, let’s go the desert and have another revelation there.” This is nonsense. It can’t be believed by a thinking person.”                                  —Christopher Hitchens”",
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                        "text": "“Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of the ages—which helps to explain why so many of modernity’s avatars, from Diderot to Christopher Hitchens, have specially targeted Christianity. On the Christian reading, history reached its highpoint when a young first-century Jewish rabbi, having been put to death on a brutal Roman instrument of torture, was raised from the dead through the power of the God of Israel. The state-sponsored murder of Jesus, who had dared to speak and act in the name of Israel’s God, represented the world’s resistance to the Creator. It was the moment when cruelty, hatred, violence, and corruption—symbolized in the Bible as the watery chaos—spent itself on Jesus. The resurrection, therefore, showed forth the victory of the divine love over those dark powers. St. Paul can say, “I am certain that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, nor any other creature can separate us from the love of God,” precisely because he lived on the far side of the resurrection.”",
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                        "text": "“I [Christopher Hitchens] moved into Mart's sock—where you lived was your 'sock.' Your rug was your 'hair.' Your knee was still your knee: we couldn't think of another word for it. We called our penises our 'willie winkies' and our shared lavatory 'the bog.' There were a lot of brilliantly inventive word games of that kind. What if you changed 'heart' to 'dick' in any well-known song or phrase? Bury my dick at Wounded Knee. Dick-break Hotel. Don't go breaking my dick ... They may, in retrospect, seem infantile, but they built intellectual muscle and taught us all we knew about philosophy, psychology, and other -ologies too numerous (and humorous!) to mention. It was at the time of the wholly reprehensible bombing of Cambodia. These dazzling jests were part of the reason why, when Mart and I got together, nobody felt able to leave the room, or sock-toe. A glimpse, if you will, of another era, a time when Mr. Wilde had sparred so felicitously with Mr. Whistler across their effortlessly groaning table at the imperious Cafe Royal.”",
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                        "text": "“Without anything being said, there were no women at our lunches. Not that we were talking pussy. Or not much. But it was a chaps thing. Seasoned observers all, we set the world, such as it was, to rights, offsetting our intellectual know-how with truly wondrous flights of fancy. It was at the time of the ruinous yet avoidable civil war in Angola, in which far too many people died, or, in our immortal parlance, became 'deadified.' It might have been anyone—actually, I [Christopher Hitchens] am sure it was our poet friend Craig Raine—who came up with the appalling yet unforgettable idea that there is a design flaw in the female form, and that the breasts and the buttocks really ought to be on the same side. For myself, I have oft been perplexed as to why our heads are where, in a truly just world, our penises really ought to be, and my arse is not located between my chin and my nose, allowing me mellifluously to talk out of it.”",
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                        "text": "“It is quite clear, whether you read Christopher Hitchens or Friedrich Nietzsche, that the image of God running the world to which they are reacting involves a celestial tyrant imposing his will on an unwilling world and unwilling human beings, cramping their style, squashing their individuality and their very humanness, requiring them to conform to arbitrary and hurtful laws and threatening them with dire consequences if they resist. This narrative (which contains a fair amount of secularist projection) serves the Enlightenment’s Deist agenda, following centuries of religious wars, as well as the power interests of those who would move God to a remote heaven in order that they can carry on exploiting the world.”",
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                        "text": "“I’ve often wondered how the term “'New Atheism”' gained such currency. It is a misnomer. There is nothing new about nonbelief. All of us, without exception, are born knowing nothing of God or gods, and acquire notions of religion solely through interaction with others – or, most often, indoctrination by others, an indoctrination usually commencing well before we can reason. Our primal state is, thus, one of nonbelief. The New Atheists (most prominently Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens) have, in essence, done nothing more than try to bring us back to our senses, to return us to a pure and innate mental clarity.”",
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                        "text": "“For Dawkins, atheism is a necessary consequence of evolution. He has argued that the religious impulse is simply an evolutionary mistake, a ‘misfiring of something useful’, it is a kind if virus, parasitic on cognitive systems naturally selected because they had enabled a species to survive. Dawkins is an extreme exponent of the scientific naturalism, originally formulated by d’Holbach, that has now become a major worldview among intellectuals. More moderate versions of this “scientism” have been articulated by Carl Sagan, Steven Weinberg, and Daniel Dennett, who have all claimed that one has to choose between science and faith. For Dennett, theology has been rendered superfluous, because biology can provide a better explanation of why people are religious. But for Dawkins, like the other “new atheists” – Sam Harris, the young American philosopher and student of neuroscience, and Christopher Hitchens, critic and journalist – religion is the cause of the problems of our world; it is the source of absolute evil and “poisons everything.” They see themselves in the vanguard of a scientific/rational movement that will eventually expunge the idea of God from human consciousness. But other atheists and scientists are wary of this approach. The American zoologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) followed Monod in his discussion of the implications of evolution. Everything in the natural world could indeed be explained by natural selection, but Gould insisted that science was not competent to decide whether God did or did not exist, because it could only work with natural explanations. Gould had no religious axe to grind; he described himself as an atheistically inclined agnostic, but pointed out that Darwin himself had denied he was an atheist and that other eminent Darwinians - Asa Gray, Charles D. Walcott, G. G. Simpson, and Theodosius Dobzhansky - had been either practicing Christians or agnostics. Atheism did not, therefore, seem to be a necessary consequence of accepting evolutionary theory, and Darwinians who held forth dogmatically on the subject were stepping beyond the limitations that were proper to science.”",
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