Quotes by : Christopher Hitchens

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased....

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience....

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo....

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted,....

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive....

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are....

We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries....

Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor....

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

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