Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I think that anti-Jewish prejudice is an unfailing sign of a sick and disordered person ... It's a horrible, conspiratorial, pseudo-intellectual, mean… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have the impression that if the "armchair generals" arguers got their way and asked only war veterans what to do about… — 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
It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Die Judenfrage ,' it used to be called, even by Jews. 'The Jewish Question.' I find I quite like this interrogative… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If the Palestinian people really wish to decide that they will battle to the very end to prevent partition or annexation of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the day comes that Tehran can announce its nuclear capability, every shred of international law will have been discarded. The mullahs… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the… — 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
“Hitherto, the Palestinians had been relatively immune to this Allahu Akhbar style. I thought this was a hugely retrograde development. I said… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — 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
“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
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots—written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements—and found that they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse… — 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
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — 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
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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