“The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing"… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“One might come up with other and kinder distinctions (I shall not be doing so) but the plain fact about the senator… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes.… — 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
“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
“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that… — 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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war… — 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
“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
“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For all its outwardly easy Latin charm, Buenos Aires was making me feel sick and upset, so I did take that trip… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes… — 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
![“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8ad/christopher-hitchens-117_conservatism_revolution-from-above-in-some-states-and_168848.jpg)
![“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and I had disagreed on the "roots" of September 11. I rush to agree. Here is what he told his audience at MIT on October 11: I'll talk about the situation in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d5/christopher-hitchens-117_2001_some-readers-may-have-noticed-an-icy-lit_2701880.jpg)
![“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't) 'if by the 1990s [Hitchens] was morphing into someone I didn’t quite recognize”, Blumenthal recalls with horror the night that I 'gave' a farewell party for Martin Walker of the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/db2/christopher-hitchens-117_1990s_pettiness-often-leads-both-to-error-and_2898661.jpg)
![“[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/46d/christopher-hitchens-117_afghanistan_today-s-left-would-have-left-us-with-slo_2414808.jpg)
![“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 aren't even young and beautiful now.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
![“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab6/christopher-hitchens-117_action_religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integ_23299.jpg)
![“Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument and conversation - is worth it to me. [It is] impossible for me to imagine having my life without going to those parties, without having those late…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/042/christopher-hitchens-117_argument_writing-is-what-s-important-to-me-and-an_57177.jpg)