Christopher Hitchens Quotes

626 quotes · Author, Critic, Journalist

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Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Critic, Journalist

Angry

“What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rather startled to find that it was 'perhaps.”

Reading Expression Stuff

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Christopher Hitchens

Author, Critic, Journalist

Angry

“I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.”

Country Order Taken

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Angry

“I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.”

Thinking Atheist

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Angry

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

Talking Adults

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Angry

“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”

Laughing Worry Gone

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Angry

“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.”

Writing Sentences Composing

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Angry

“What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.”

Way Class Claims

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Philosophical

“Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment, say, carried more weight if it came from a prison governor. (My friend John O'Sullivan puts it like this: If the pope says he believes in God, he's only doing his job; if he says he doesn't believe in God, he may be on to something.)”

Believe Jobs Punishment

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Inspired

“My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.”

Father Race Cancer

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Philosophical

“Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.”

Religion Atheism Sick

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Angry

“The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.”

Art Pain Religious

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Angry

“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.”

Thinking Long Atheist

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