All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect. Bombs
- Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing… Absolute
- Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. Actually Said
- Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American, someone… Actually Embodies
- One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all… All
- It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna… Approach
- Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. Abjection
- The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still… Accept
- Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife. Country
- The one unforgivable sin is to be boring. Boring
- If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. Constitute
- Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the… Afghanistan
- I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light. Both
- Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for… Argument
- The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. Criticism
- Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. Been
- When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen Cds
- Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever. Action
- Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all… Adopt
- In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want… Best
- I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... Boredom
- I am, I hope, never offensive by accident. Accident
- It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever… Drunk
- In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a… Advance
- Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt. Al