Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. Christopher Hitchens More Quotes by Christopher Hitchens More Quotes From Christopher Hitchens If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production. Christopher Hitchens economyunitystupid The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god; it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one. Christopher Hitchens atheistmaythinking I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just to lead better lives but to be better people. Christopher Hitchens doepeoplethinking The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. Christopher Hitchens earthwayreligion Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it. Christopher Hitchens this-worldatheistworld One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office. Christopher Hitchens officerunningpeople America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial. Christopher Hitchens viewsmeancountry Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're boring, they don't mind that they're obvious, their point is made. Christopher Hitchens mindstuffthinking When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul. Christopher Hitchens homecountrychildren It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque. Christopher Hitchens oildecisionpeople I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case. Christopher Hitchens atheistreligiousthinking The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with encirclement? This is insulting. In what sense does the independence of Georgia constitute an encirclement? What we are facing, and we may as well give it its right name, is what I called it earlier, a chauvinistic, theocratic in part, xenophobic Russian imperialism. Christopher Hitchens yugoslavialandnames Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistook for energy. There was, rather, a tensile excitement in the air which made one think - made me think for many years - that time spent asleep in New York was somehow time wasted. Whether this thought has lengthened or shortened my life I shall never know, but it has certainly colored it. Christopher Hitchens new-yorkairthinking Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like. Christopher Hitchens forgetyears [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. Christopher Hitchens denialjustification I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but people say faith can move mountains. Faith in what, by the way? You haven't said. Christopher Hitchens mountainpeoplemoving The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all. Christopher Hitchens drskingsrights I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. Christopher Hitchens respect-peopleenvypeople Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that. Christopher Hitchens hatewinningwar American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting the Christian faith are unclear, they seem to have been profound and deep-rooted. Having lambasted the founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, in a later quote he referred to the Book of Mormon as "chloroform in print." Christopher Hitchens christianprofoundbook
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