All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, Decided
- What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend… Abominate
- I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that… Banal
- I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does not constitute torture,… Abraham
- To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as… Crap
- Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name… Apache
- Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. Closely
- There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not. Design
- The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. Capricious
- What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps. Collection
- Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked… Around Inside
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs. Arise
- It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. Audience
- I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not… Atheist
- I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason. Deserve
- This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… Abolition
- Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized… Across
- Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of… Adopts
- If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope… Article
- The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a… Ability