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It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.
— Christopher Hitchens
The Auden/Kallman relationship had this to be said for it: It affirmed that it's better to be blatant than latent.
— Christopher Hitchens
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
Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but ... Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129) — Christopher Hitchens
All of life is a wager
— Christopher Hitchens
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
— Christopher Hitchens
People like Mr Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.
— George Galloway
Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
— Christopher Hitchens
David Irving is not just a Fascist historian . He is also a great historian of Fascism .
— Christopher Hitchens
If you're going to generalize about women, you'll find yourself up to here in exceptions.
— Dolores Hitchens
Mr Hitchens's policy has succeeded in making 10,000 new Bin Ladens.
— George Galloway
I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
— Christopher Hitchens
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
— Christopher Hitchens
Thus in order to be a "radical" one must be open to the possibility that one's own core assumptions are misconceived.
— Christopher Hitchens
The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you
— Christopher Hitchens
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.
— Christopher Hitchens
Reason is the Devil's harlot, who can do nought but slander and harm whatever God says and does. - MARTIN LUTHER
— 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
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.
— Christopher Hitchens
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
— Christopher Hitchens
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
— Christopher Hitchens
I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.
— 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
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
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
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
— Christopher Hitchens
Remember that it is 'free-thinking Jews,' not Jews as such, who are defined as the undesirables by T.S. Eliot in After Strange Gods.
— Christopher Hitchens
People say, "What's it like to be a minority of one, or a kick-bag for the Internet?" It washes off me like jizz off a porn star's face.
— Christopher Hitchens
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
— Christopher Hitchens
![Hitchens's Quotes By Christopher Hitchens: She's got no charisma of any kind [but]](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/hitchenss-quotes-by-christopher-hitchens-2091224.jpg "Hitchens's Quotes By Christopher Hitchens: She's got no charisma of any kind [but]")
She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
— Christopher Hitchens
If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.
— Christopher Hitchens
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.
— Christopher Hitchens
I think that people's sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.
— Christopher Hitchens
Either one attributes one's presence here to the laws of biology and physics, or one attributes it to a divine design.
— Christopher Hitchens
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
— Christopher Hitchens
It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
— Christopher Hitchens
It's called faith because it's not knowledge.
— Christopher Hitchens
I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
— Christopher Hitchens
Montaigne: Religion's surest foundation is the contempt for life.
— Christopher Hitchens
![Hitchens's Quotes By Christopher Hitchens: [Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/hitchenss-quotes-by-christopher-hitchens-1655929.jpg "Hitchens's Quotes By Christopher Hitchens: [Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein")
[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.
— Christopher Hitchens
The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.
— Christopher Hitchens
I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.
— Christopher Hitchens
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
— Christopher Hitchens
I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.
— Christopher Hitchens
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
— Christopher Hitchens
![Hitchens's Quotes By Christopher Hitchens: It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/hitchenss-quotes-by-christopher-hitchens-1411087.jpg "Hitchens's Quotes By Christopher Hitchens: It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like")
It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.
— Christopher Hitchens
The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.
— Christopher Hitchens
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
— Christopher Hitchens
My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.
— 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
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
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
Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.
— Christopher Hitchens
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.
— 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
This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal societies on earth.
— Peter 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
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
I don't consider myself to be that credulous.
— 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
