Famous Christopher Hitchens Quotes

  • [T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes. – Christopher Hitchens

    [T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.– Christopher Hitchens

  • mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order. – Christopher Hitchens

    mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.– Christopher Hitchens

  • How ya doin’?’ I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, ‘A bit early to tell. – Christopher Hitchens

    How ya doin’?’ I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, ‘A bit early to tell.– Christopher Hitchens

  • When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen. – Christopher Hitchens

    When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that ‘he may tarry,’ we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.– Christopher Hitchens

  • The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. – Christopher Hitchens

    The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.– Christopher Hitchens

  • There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. – Christopher Hitchens

    There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.– Christopher Hitchens

  • Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. – Christopher Hitchens

    Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries.– Christopher Hitchens

  • The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. – Christopher Hitchens

    The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.– Christopher Hitchens

  • The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. – Christopher Hitchens

    The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.– Christopher Hitchens

  • The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies. – Christopher Hitchens

    The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.– Christopher Hitchens