“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The friends of Galtieri, Saddam Hussein, Mullah Omar and Milosevic make unconvincing defenders of humanitarian values, and it can be seen that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He is in many ways quite a right-wing isolationist. It's because some people are naïve enough to confuse this with anti-imperialism that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If the counsel of the peaceniks had been followed, Kuwait would today be the nineteenth province of Iraq. Bosnia would be a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You might think that the Left could have a regime-change perspective of its own, based on solidarity with its comrades abroad. After… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt… — 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
“There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be for… — 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
“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Not long ago, having expressed some disagreements in print with an old comrade of long standing, I was sent a response that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a… — 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