People Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

— Christopher Hitchens

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.

— Christopher Hitchens

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

— Christopher Hitchens

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their…

— Christopher Hitchens

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond…

— Christopher Hitchens

Friends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

— Christopher Hitchens

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent…

— Christopher Hitchens

I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy…

— 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

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view…

— Christopher Hitchens

So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he…

— 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

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of…

— Christopher Hitchens

It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least…

— Christopher Hitchens

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of…

— 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

I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian…

— Christopher Hitchens

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if…

— Christopher Hitchens

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was…

— 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

Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness…

— Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans…

— Christopher Hitchens

The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they…

— Christopher Hitchens

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

— Christopher Hitchens

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

— Christopher Hitchens

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

— Christopher Hitchens

Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

— Christopher Hitchens

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

— Christopher Hitchens

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity

— 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 are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

— 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

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

— Christopher Hitchens