“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
“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people… — 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
“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
“Don't write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or… — 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
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
“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the… — 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
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
“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there… — 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
“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — 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
“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 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
“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 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
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