My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 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
Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god;… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“here is something that is impossible for anyone to believe. The human species has been in existence as Homo sapiens for (let… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize… — 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
“If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting… — 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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