Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and later American author, columnist, essayist, orator, religious, literary and social critic, and journalist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays on culture, politics and literature. A staple of public discourse, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded intellectual and a controversial public figure. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Free Inquiry and Vanity Fair. ...more

Birth: April 13, 1949 - Death: December 15, 2011

- Christopher Hitchens

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

- Christopher Hitchens

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

Topic(s): People , Knows , Chains

- Christopher Hitchens

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

Topic(s): Giving , Believe , Reason

- Christopher Hitchens

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Topic(s): Used , Coward , Manipulation

- Christopher Hitchens

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Topic(s): Form , Stupid , Atheist

- Christopher Hitchens

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

Topic(s): Ifs , World , Children

- Christopher Hitchens

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

Topic(s): Way , Evil , Religious

- Christopher Hitchens

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Topic(s): Children , Care , Shows

- Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Topic(s): Humans , Ability , Laughing

- Christopher Hitchens

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.