Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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Christopher Hitchens

Profession : Author

Birth : April 13, 1949

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Christopher Hitchens

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Christopher Hitchens

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

Christopher Hitchens

I'm not a sheep.

Christopher Hitchens

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

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Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

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Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

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A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

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

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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

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Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables.

Christopher Hitchens

I vote and I do jury duty.

Christopher Hitchens

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.

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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

You can only have one aim per debate.

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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

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