3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens 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.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens 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.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all it just feels like submitting.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.
