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
As is so often the case with pieces that appear in the 'Onion,' I honestly could not decide whether this was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you consider how many millions of workdays begin with hangovers great and small, it is mildly surprising to find how few… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who… — 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
![“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b21/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-belie_3215841.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)
