Politics Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

“Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

— Christopher Hitchens

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics”

— Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

— Christopher Hitchens

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the London…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The prerogative of the Crown; the enthronement of 'The Crown in Parliament', is the special and particular symbol of our status as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They…

— Christopher Hitchens

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The little boats cannot make much difference to the welfare of Gaza either way, since the materials being shipped are in such…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when…

— Christopher Hitchens

“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing and confused testimony of Jude Wanniski…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it…

— Christopher Hitchens

“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book On God ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House…

— Christopher Hitchens

“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring…

— Christopher Hitchens