“New forms of the artistic register are one of the infallible signs of an authentic moment.” — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a… — 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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“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
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
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
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