Christopher Hitchens Quotes — Page 26

Author, Critic, Journalist

Spiritual

“For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most vulnerable or suggestible. If they can't get them in school, then they get them when they are hungry, or frightened, or ill, or homeless, or unemployed. Same difference. Here's your gruel, and here's a tract.”

Believe School Differences

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Critic, Journalist

Spiritual

“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”

Sleep Struggle Anxiety

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Angry

“I'm dying, but so are you”

Inspirational Dying

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Angry

“Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.”

Opposites Virtue

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Angry

“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish.”

Rights Rocks Caves

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Angry

“Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!”

Dying Willing Sanctions

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Courageous

“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.”

Thinking Political Views

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Angry

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

Doors Faces Should Have

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Funny

“A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.”

Beautiful Love Zero

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Funny

“All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.”

Book Talking Usual

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Angry

“Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.”

Book Memories Yesterday

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Angry

“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.”

Beautiful Pops Difficult Choices

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