Christopher Hitchens

I'm not a conservative of any kind.

— Christopher Hitchens

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and…

— Christopher Hitchens

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans…

— 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

“The prerogative of the Crown; the enthronement of 'The Crown in Parliament', is the special and particular symbol of our status as…

— Christopher Hitchens

The finest fury is the most controlled.

— Christopher Hitchens

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

— Christopher Hitchens

The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not,…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“Not to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state…

— Christopher Hitchens

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some peaceniks clear their throats by saying that, of course, they oppose Saddam Hussein as much as anybody, though not enough to…

— Christopher Hitchens

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps…

— Christopher Hitchens

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?”

— 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

“It's the minute fanaticism and superiority of the Almanach that offends: the chilling and narrowing of the kinship tie into something denatured…

— 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

“Populists (and 'national socialists') look at the supposedly secret deals that run the world 'behind the scenes'. Child's play. Except that childishness…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sir Steven Runciman, whose history of the Crusades is an imperishable work, because it demonstrates that medieval Christian fundamentalism not only constituted…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Brave? Hah! Save it for a fight you can't run away from.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“In the struggle against that state of affairs criticism is no passion of the head, it is the head of passion. It…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted…

— Christopher Hitchens

I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas…

— Christopher Hitchens