All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win… Challenge
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. Atheism
- Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in… Applied
- [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. Denial
- How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth? Commercial
- An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is… American
- Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather… Answer
- In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed… Apparent
- The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. Anything Like
- I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite… Accustomed
- I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you'… Always Detested
- What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. Earthly
- What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. Continued
- You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized… Agreed
- Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don't introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who… Acquaintance
- Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time… Aloud
- The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or… Avowal
- I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others,… Any
- Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and… Accept
- [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens… Absolutely
- Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and… Affords
- To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one… Around Inside
- We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes. Anxiety
- The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he… Absurdity
- We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He… Advances