“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“believers fight each other over the correct interpretation and even kill members of their own faiths in battles over doctrine. Civilization has… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In Sarajevo in 1992, while being shown around the starved, bombarded city by the incomparable John Burns, I experienced four near misses… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — 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
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I understand in retrospect that this was my first introduction to a conflict that dominates all our lives: the endless, irreconcilable conflict… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to tyranny and fascism and war,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as 'Abu Nidal' ('father of struggle'), who was at the time… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — 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
So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The 'pre-emption' versus 'prevention' debate may be a distinction without much difference. The important thing is to have it understood that the… — 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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