Ifs Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

— Christopher Hitchens

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite…

— Christopher Hitchens

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,

— Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.

— Christopher Hitchens

There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean…

— Christopher Hitchens

In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of…

— Christopher Hitchens

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does…

— Christopher Hitchens

The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as…

— Christopher Hitchens

The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her…

— Christopher Hitchens

Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's…

— Christopher Hitchens

Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case…

— Christopher Hitchens

If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that…

— Christopher Hitchens

One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at…

— 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

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.

— Christopher Hitchens

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

— Christopher Hitchens

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.

— Christopher Hitchens

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

— Christopher Hitchens

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might…

— Christopher Hitchens

If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then…

— Christopher Hitchens

Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between…

— 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

There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was…

— Christopher Hitchens

Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in…

— Christopher Hitchens

I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again…

— Christopher Hitchens

If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on…

— Christopher Hitchens

A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not…

— Christopher Hitchens