Christopher Hitchens Quotes

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Christopher Hitchens

Learned, Often, Themselves

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
Christopher Hitchens

God, Food, Water

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'
Christopher Hitchens

Why, Question, Return

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

Life, Time, Dead

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Good, Today

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes, Sense, Makes

I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher Hitchens

Depression, Giving, Dark

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Christopher Hitchens

Time, Light, Lovely

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
Christopher Hitchens

Stupid, Lazy, Kinds

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
Christopher Hitchens

Beautiful, Between, Difficult

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.
Christopher Hitchens

Used, Either, View

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
Christopher Hitchens

School, May, Philosophy

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.
Christopher Hitchens

Rather, Knowing, Discovery

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
Christopher Hitchens

Forget, Nothing, Actually

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
Christopher Hitchens

Rude, Purpose, Gentleman

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
Christopher Hitchens

Press, Rely, Journalist

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens

Mind, Soul, Since

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
Christopher Hitchens

Life, Hope, Human

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens

Humor, Sense, Possible

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

Love, War, Christian

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens

Yourself, Die, Everyone

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.
Christopher Hitchens

Faith, Religion, Health

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens

Great, Character, Moral

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.
Christopher Hitchens

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

Change, Best, Political

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 13, 1949

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