Wells Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond…

— Christopher Hitchens

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring.…

— Christopher Hitchens

I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more…

— Christopher Hitchens

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

— Christopher Hitchens

A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might…

— Christopher Hitchens

Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which…

— Christopher Hitchens

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open…

— Christopher Hitchens

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It…

— Christopher Hitchens

The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying…

— Christopher Hitchens

Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally…

— Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The…

— Christopher Hitchens

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

— Christopher Hitchens

Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or…

— Christopher Hitchens

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best…

— Christopher Hitchens

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,…

— Christopher Hitchens

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good…

— Christopher Hitchens

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was…

— Christopher Hitchens

People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception…

— Christopher Hitchens

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide…

— Christopher Hitchens

The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was…

— Christopher Hitchens