All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… Attested
- We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the… Afraid
- It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism, an ideology that… Abortion
- Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. All
- Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark… Anxiety
- When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children. Children
- When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every… Ask
- The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures. Assailed
- Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness… Conjure
- I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or… Absence
- I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely… Cause
- I feel Anglo-American. American
- The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone. Everyone
- I was becoming post-ideological. Becoming
- I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism. Eruption
- I wanted to write. Wanted
- I still think like a Marxist in many ways. Many
- Of course, I do everything for money. Course
- If you can talk, you can write. Talk
- I like surprises. Like Surprises
- Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. Any
- Obscenity comes from grime. From