All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual sadism is not… Content
- She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. Any
- Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold… Award
- Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to… All
- Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create… Assumes
- In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… All
- Cheap booze is a false economy. Alcohol
- Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… Allied
- What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. Better
- Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are… Allegiance
- If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox. Atheist
- People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by… Alarmingly
- What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will come and get… Able
- Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an… Any
- [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the… Afghanistan
- We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is… All
- Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear… Afraid
- So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more… Alienating
- How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. Americans
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. Critical Thinking
- He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly… Abnormally
- Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century. Century
- Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. Apologize
- It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A… Abject
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject… Abject