Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

About Christopher Hitchens:

Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English author, literary critic, and journalist who spent much of his career in the United States and became an American citizen.
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Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.

Christopher Hitchens

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Christopher Hitchens

If you can talk, you can write.

Christopher Hitchens

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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I've proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

Christopher Hitchens

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

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I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

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I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

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I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

Christopher Hitchens

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

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The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.

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The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Christopher Hitchens

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Christopher Hitchens

I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

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The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

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Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

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One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.

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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

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Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Hitchens
  • DescriptionBritish American author and journalist
  • BornApril 13, 1949
  • DiedDecember 15, 2011
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; United States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer; Essayist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsRichard Dawkins Award