All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done… Action
- There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president… Africa
- In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. Close
- I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas a moral and… Aesthetic
- A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira.… Activity
- There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something… All
- Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting… Adapting
- The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible… Claim
- It's called faith because it's not knowledge. Called
- Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all. All
- Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... Compelled
- I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of… Became
- I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth,… All
- Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock. Bell
- It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. Absolute
- Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. Choice
- We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided… Atheist
- A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe… Asking
- In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology… Altogether
- In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew.… America