Thinking Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

— Christopher Hitchens

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

— Christopher Hitchens

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

— Christopher Hitchens

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given…

— Christopher Hitchens

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

— Christopher Hitchens

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

— Christopher Hitchens

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other…

— Christopher Hitchens

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are…

— Christopher Hitchens

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he…

— Christopher Hitchens

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas…

— 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

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But…

— Christopher Hitchens

Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and…

— 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

It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping…

— Christopher Hitchens

How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How…

— Christopher Hitchens

Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by…

— 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

We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more…

— Christopher Hitchens

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants…

— Christopher Hitchens

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

— Christopher Hitchens

I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the…

— Christopher Hitchens

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

— Christopher Hitchens

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.

— Christopher Hitchens

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

— Christopher Hitchens

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect…

— Christopher Hitchens