War Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

— Christopher Hitchens

Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?

— Christopher Hitchens

And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

— Christopher Hitchens

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in…

— Christopher Hitchens

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first,…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I feel upsettingly denatured. If Penélope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice. In the war against Thanatos, if…

— Christopher Hitchens

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

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

“believers fight each other over the correct interpretation and even kill members of their own faiths in battles over doctrine. Civilization has…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I understand in retrospect that this was my first introduction to a conflict that dominates all our lives: the endless, irreconcilable conflict…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Who but the sports-mad [Norman] Mailer would liken the battle between God and the Devil to a game of American football? The…

— Christopher Hitchens

“As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I cannot forget the figures of Slobodan Milošević, Charles Taylor and Saddam Hussein, who made terrified fiefdoms out of their "own" people…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Watching the towers fall in New York, with civilians incinerated on the planes and in the buildings, I felt something that I…

— Christopher Hitchens

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day…

— Christopher Hitchens

“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy…

— Christopher Hitchens

“That war [Bosnian war] in the early 1990s changed a lot for me. I never thought I would see, in Europe, a…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then editor…

— Christopher Hitchens

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You can walk around this culture now, as a proud supporter of the so called anti-war movement and it's made up of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What people still do not like to admit is that there were two crimes in the form of one. Just as the…

— Christopher Hitchens