“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been… — 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… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I'm not as I was but at this present moment I have to say, I feel very envious of someone who's young… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This brings us to the crux moment in the supposed 'Show Trial' melodrama. Employing the confusing and confused testimony of Jude Wanniski… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A man knows, not only that he now is, but also that there was a time when he did not exist; consequently… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At certain times of the day, and at particular bends in the road or curves of the shore, Cyprus is still so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[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 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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