X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Christopher Hitchens Inspirational Quotes (325)

Page 6 of 14
Filter & Style
Image
It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of Me Decade possessive individualism, an ideology that has more in common than it admits with the prehistoric right, which it claims to oppose but has in fact encouraged.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
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
Image
The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
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
Image
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
Image
One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
Christopher Hitchens
Image
It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.
Christopher Hitchens
Previous
Next