Time Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.”

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.

— 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

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

— Christopher Hitchens

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

— Christopher Hitchens

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.

— Christopher Hitchens

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time.

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a…

— Christopher Hitchens

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child…

— Christopher Hitchens

“At the time, the United States had an attorney general named John Ashcroft, who had stated that America had “no king but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for…

— Christopher Hitchens

We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,…

— Christopher Hitchens

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god;…

— Christopher Hitchens

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I know what’s coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it’s a matter of getting used…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food…

— 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

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone…

— Christopher Hitchens

“To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not…

— Christopher Hitchens

“All religions must, at their core, look forward to the end of this world and to the longed-for moment when all will…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Famine is good to the corn-merchant, evil to the poor, and indifferent to those whose fortunes can at all times command a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the…

— 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

“Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am…

— Christopher Hitchens