The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or… — 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
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny. — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
![“The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ebc/christopher-hitchens-117_borders_the-russians-are-going-to-be-expansionis_130903.jpg)
![“In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb3/christopher-hitchens-117_action_in-the-aftermath-of-the-recent-wave-acti_2727358.jpg)
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