“[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
“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
“Lefever describes his financing plan with modesty: "'Our detailed budget is realistic, but does not take into account the inflation that may… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I resolutely refuse to believe that the state of Edward's health had anything to do with this, and I don't say this… — 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
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Clinton, speaking to a black church audience on Martin Luther King Day last year, did describe President George W. Bush as… — 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
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — 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
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
“I can see why people find him [Hugo Chávez] charming. He's very ebullient, as they say. I've heard him make a speech,… — 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
“Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to… — 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
“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
“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
“On my desk is an appeal from the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. It asks me to become a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.” — 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
“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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