Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At the time, the United States had an attorney general named John Ashcroft, who had stated that America had “no king but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was… — 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
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The North Korean state was born at about the same time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published, and one could almost believe that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by. No plan is then too… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Call no man lucky until he is dead, but there have been moment of rare satisfaction in the often random and fragmented… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the… — 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
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