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Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Christopher Hitchens quotes

American Author April 13, 1949 – December 15, 2011

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People say, "What’s it like to be a minority of one, or a kick-bag for the Internet?" It washes off me like jizz off a porn star’s face. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician..."
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against..."
It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made. Christopher Hitchens
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's..."
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. Christopher Hitchens
To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its..."
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and..."
The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because..."
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic..."
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. Christopher Hitchens
Heroism breaks its heart, and idealism its back, on the intransigence of the credulous and the mediocre, manipulated by the cynical and the corrupt. Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens quote: "Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. Christopher Hitchens
The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal. Christopher Hitchens
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things. Christopher Hitchens
...but now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady. Christopher Hitchens

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