All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip.… Carry
- The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against… Alone
- If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. Atheism
- The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. Belongs
- The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire… Anyone
- Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read… All
- You have to choose your future regrets. Choose
- A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for… Battle
- I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a… Any
- It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory Describe
- Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. Almost Never
- Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some… Absolutely
- We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang. Accomplices
- Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated… Animal
- I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that… Birth
- If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what… Cowardice
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority. Ability
- No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant. Divine
- Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and… Assume
- Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms… All
- Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. Advantage
- Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. Credulity
- The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. Claim
- The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to… Alive
- The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of… All