There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.
– Christopher Hitchens
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- There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet. – Christopher Hitchens
- That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. – Christopher Hitchens
- Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up. – Richelle E Goodrich
- The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can’t be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus. – Christopher Hitchens
- Change is a quintessential element of progress. Without change, progress is non-existent. – Abhijit Naskar
- A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can’t make old friends. – Christopher Hitchens
- I think that people’s sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible. – Christopher Hitchens
- Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return. – Christopher Hitchens
- Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula? – Christopher Hitchens
- What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. – Christopher Hitchens
- Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake. – Christopher Hitchens
- Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East. – Christopher Hitchens
- The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them. – Christopher Hitchens
- You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too. – Christopher Hitchens
- Don’t write in to ask whether I would prefer Gingrich to Clinton. Ask, rather, whether Clinton prefers Gingrich to you. Go triangulate yourself. – Christopher Hitchens
- It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one. – Christopher Hitchens
- Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. – Christopher Hitchens
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock. – Christopher Hitchens
- The finest fury is the most controlled. – Christopher Hitchens
- The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. – Christopher Hitchens
- The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). – Christopher Hitchens
- The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. – Christopher Hitchens
- The Postmodernists’ tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose. – Christopher Hitchens
- The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right. – Christopher Hitchens
- Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery. – Christopher Hitchens
- Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared. – Christopher Hitchens
- If someone tells me that I’ve hurt their feelings, I say, ‘I’m still waiting to hear what your point is. – Christopher Hitchens
- The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. – Christopher Hitchens
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- Don’t swallow your moral code in tablet form. – Christopher Hitchens
- [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. – Christopher Hitchens
- I’ve always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don’t really respect anyone who falls for Camelot. – Christopher Hitchens
- The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it’s your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you – Christopher Hitchens
- In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. – Christopher Hitchens
- The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies. – Christopher Hitchens
- The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition. – Christopher Hitchens
- The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. – 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
- mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order. – 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