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With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork. — Christopher Hitchens

Time spent arguing is, oddly enough, almost never wasted. — Christopher Hitchens

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. — Christopher Hitchens

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority. — Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics. — Christopher Hitchens

All of life is a wager — Christopher Hitchens

If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day. — Christopher Hitchens

Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers. — Christopher Hitchens

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry. — Christopher Hitchens

David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism . — Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. — Christopher Hitchens

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. — Christopher Hitchens

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. — Christopher Hitchens

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. — Christopher Hitchens

Because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing - — Christopher Hitchens

The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent. — Christopher Hitchens

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth. — Christopher Hitchens

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. — Christopher Hitchens

I began the project of judging Mother Teresa's reputation by her actions and words rather than her actions and words by her reputation. — Christopher Hitchens

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds. — Christopher Hitchens

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. — Christopher Hitchens

Cheap booze is a false economy. — Christopher Hitchens

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. — Christopher Hitchens

Ground) - "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her" - has entered our literature and our consciousness. This episode — Christopher Hitchens

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. — Christopher Hitchens

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. — Christopher Hitchens

Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell. — Christopher Hitchens

Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. — Christopher Hitchens

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light. — Christopher Hitchens

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. — Christopher Hitchens

There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all. — Christopher Hitchens

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. — Christopher Hitchens

Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism. — Christopher Hitchens

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. — Christopher Hitchens

The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens

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. — Christopher Hitchens

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. — Christopher Hitchens

Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife. — Christopher Hitchens

At certain times of the day, and at particular bends in the road or curves of the shore, Cyprus is still so lovely that it takes you by the throat. — Christopher Hitchens

You can't have occupation and human rights. — Christopher Hitchens

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. — Christopher Hitchens

The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women — Christopher Hitchens

To begin with a summary of Paine's astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was ever able to emerge at all. — Christopher Hitchens

A bit of a stomach give a chap a position in society. — Christopher Hitchens

("Anyone who uses 'childhood' and 'dream' in the same sentence usually gets my attention. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't have a body, I am a body. — Christopher Hitchens

Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy? — Christopher Hitchens

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant. — Christopher Hitchens

Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't consider myself to be that credulous. — Christopher Hitchens

What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'? — Christopher Hitchens

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment. — Christopher Hitchens

The point is not the honest relief of suffering but the promulgation of a cult based on death and suffering and subjection. Mother — Christopher Hitchens

The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both. — Christopher Hitchens

He amended the thought to say that men were "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," thus — Christopher Hitchens

In this way he will draw men to him by the strong cords of their passions, made reason-proof by being baptized with the name of piety. — Christopher Hitchens

It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true. — Christopher Hitchens

I think that all filth is local ... and that a joke isn't a joke unless it's at somebody's expense — Christopher Hitchens

For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time. — Christopher Hitchens

Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock. — Christopher Hitchens

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 endangered patient. — Christopher Hitchens

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. — Christopher Hitchens

Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." I — Christopher Hitchens

Osama bin Laden's writings and actions constitute a direct negation of human liberty, and vent an undisguised hatred and contempt for life itself. — Christopher Hitchens

My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her. — Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens

Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. — Christopher Hitchens

What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens

It's no fun to appreciate to the full the truth of the materialist proposition that I don't have a body, I am a body. — Christopher Hitchens

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form. — Christopher Hitchens

And showed him to be a villa-dwelling dependent and not an ascetic cave-dwelling guerrilla. — Christopher Hitchens

I am, I hope, never offensive by accident. — Christopher Hitchens

I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information. — Christopher Hitchens

No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine — Christopher Hitchens

The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies. — Christopher Hitchens

while courage is not in itself one of the primary virtues, it is the quality that makes the exercise of the virtues possible. — Christopher Hitchens

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. — Christopher Hitchens

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. — Christopher Hitchens

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. — Christopher Hitchens

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons. — Christopher Hitchens

History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale. — Christopher Hitchens

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. — Christopher Hitchens

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory — Christopher Hitchens

I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize. — Christopher Hitchens

As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best a shifty fantasist. — Christopher Hitchens

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. — Christopher Hitchens

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey. — Christopher Hitchens

PATRIOTIC AND TRIBAL feelings belong to the squalling childhood of the human race, and become no more charming in their senescence. — Christopher Hitchens

Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. — Christopher Hitchens

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. — Christopher Hitchens

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. — Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. — Christopher Hitchens

There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. — Christopher Hitchens

Saul Bellow: Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are able to see anything. — Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language. — Christopher Buckley