All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a… American
- There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state… Cannot Forget
- There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a… Baby
- When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude… Abject
- When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer… All
- Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work,… Always Try
- The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement. Claimed
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this… Aimed
- Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and… Atheism
- Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. Book
- Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… Afraid
- The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Boredom
- it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists Defensively
- The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus,… Asked
- When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody… Allen
- Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary… Atheism
- Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it… Atheism
- Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. Answer
- The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we… Any
- [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. Atheist
- Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Atheism
- Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a… Adultery
- The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. Been
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… Accustomed
- We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who… Based