Christopher Hitchens

“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most…

— Christopher Hitchens

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

— Christopher Hitchens

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and…

— Christopher Hitchens

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

— Christopher Hitchens

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I first met…

— Christopher Hitchens

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no politics like antipolitics”

— Christopher Hitchens

I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, “you should be ashamed to die.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual…

— Christopher Hitchens