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
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
There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iraqi Baath Socialist Party was modelled in large part on admiration for European National Socialist and Fascist movements, hoped to emulate… — 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