The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring… — 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
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the Senate debate on the intervention in Iraq, Sen. Clinton made considerable use of her background and 'experience' to argue that,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Playing pool with Korean officials one evening in the Koryo Hotel, which has become the nightspot for foreign businessmen and an increasing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It doesn't happen to me anymore, because a fresh generation of Africans and Asians has arisen to take over the business, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — 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
![“[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an Irish-American and so forth. (Jews for some reason prefer the words the other way around, as in 'American Jewish Congress' or 'American Jewish…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/655/christopher-hitchens-117_england_t-he-hyphenation-question-is-and-always_840076.jpg)
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