Famous Quotes

Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

• I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
• I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
• I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
• 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.
• I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
• I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
• 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.
• I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
• I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
• I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.
• I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
• 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.
• In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
• 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.
• It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.