All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. Anyone
- I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing… All
- The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. Amazing
- I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. Death
- I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. Cheaply
- The violence in the Bible is appalling. Appalling
- Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. Behave
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that… Become Disillusioned
- The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to… Battle
- I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. Completely
- It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. Beholder
- Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. Alarm
- You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not? American
- I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is… Country
- Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible… Agonising
- I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Composing
- I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was… Acting
- I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. Convert
- In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to… Been
- It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. Atheist
- Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas. Barbaric
- Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. Attitude
- Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence. Adult
- The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Bucks
- The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal. Account