Christopher Hitchens
Quotations
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“It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?” -Christopher Hitchens
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“There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“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
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“If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“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
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“I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Of course, I do everything for money.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I think the materialist conception of history is valid.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” -Christopher…
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“The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“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.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was…
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“There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“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 socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“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 socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“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
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‘Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age’ was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant’s thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. – Christopher Hitchens
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