Quotes by : Christopher Hitchens

What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It....

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic....

It is notorious that the news of the Emancipation Proclamation was kept from the people of Texas and....

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology....

Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence.

[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species....

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my....

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard....

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off