David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This surrender, by a man of the Enlightenment and a man of truly revolutionary and democratic temperament, is another reminder that history… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing"… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who… — 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
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is:… — 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
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is strange, a judicious reader is apt to say, upon the perusal of these wonderful historians, that such prodigious events never… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And thus to my final and most melancholy point: a great number of Stalin's enforcers and henchmen in Eastern Europe were Jews.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a man leaps out of a burning building—as my dear friend and colleague Jeff Goldberg sat and said to my… — 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 have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn’t just think that I was right: I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This historic general election, which showed that the British are well able to distinguish between patriotism and Toryism, brought Clement Attlee 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
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If one could nominate an absolutely tragic day in human history, it would be the occasion that is now commemorated by the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“suppose, that all the historians who treat of England, should agree, that, on the first of January 1600, Queen Elizabeth died; that… — 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
![“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53d/christopher-hitchens-117_age_o-ne-has-to-have-endured-a-few-decades-b_1102939.jpg)
![“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at a time when we had no concept of physics, chemistry, biology or medicine. We did not know that we lived on a round planet, let alone that the said planet was in orbit in a minor…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15c/christopher-hitchens-117_digestive-system_r-eligion-was-the-race-s-first-and-worst_1384906.jpg)
![“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b21/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-belie_3215841.jpg)
![“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 aren't even young and beautiful now.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
![“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab6/christopher-hitchens-117_action_religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integ_23299.jpg)
