52 quotes by Christopher Hitchens

“The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.” — 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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“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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“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.” — 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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“Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.” — 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 don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.” — 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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“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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“My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.” — 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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“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.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.” — Christopher Hitchens

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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.” — 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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“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.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.” — Christopher Hitchens

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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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“Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.” — 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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“Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.” — 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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“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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