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Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Of course, I do everything for money.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Chemotherapy isn’t good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, ‘Well that is a good thing because it’s supposed to be poison. If it’s making the tumor feel this queasy, then I’m OK with it.’”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed – in view of the overall shortage of time – by patience.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “For some reason, many religions force themselves to think of the birth canal as a one-way street, and even the Koran treats the Virgin Mary with reverence.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “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 Quote: “We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “As long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffuse feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures. For so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The reading public isn’t born that doesn’t think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Kierkegaard so shrewdly observes, one is condemned to live it forward and review it backward.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The violence in the Bible is appalling.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “This walking business is overrated: I mastered the art of doing it when I was quite small, and in any case, what are taxis for?”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday’s.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “A celebrity is well known for being well known. I’m relatively well known – but for what I’ve written and said, or so I fondly imagine.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “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 Quote: “I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “I’m reminded of the lady governor of Texas who, during a controversy about bilingualism in the State House in Austin, said if English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it was plenty good enough for her.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ’the flock.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all republicans, we are all federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The road to Damascus was not and is not a one-way street.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy’s children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy’s graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “We know that our life is essentially tragic. I’m absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, “Why didn’t you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind.””
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Don’t take security in the false refuge of consensus.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “Never ask while you are doing it if what you are doing is fun. Don’t introduce even your most reliably witty acquaintance as someone who will set the table on a roar.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “The thing about religion is that it’s the first and the worst. The worst because it’s the first.”
Christopher Hitchens Quote: “It has been said that alcohol is a good servant and a bad master. Nice try. The plain fact is that it makes other people, and indeed life itself, a good deal less boring.”
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