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Christopher Hitchens Quotes (141 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) |
| “Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: BBC Newsnight Special: Christopher Hitchens, 29 November 2010 [2] - On religion |
| “Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) |
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| “A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: The Trial of Henry Kissinger. 2002. LCC E840.8.K58 H58 2001. ISBN 1859846319. OCLC 46240330. |
| “And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. 2004. ISBN 1560255803. OCLC 56991027. |
| “The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: With Andrew Sullivan on Tim Russert, CNBC (2004-09-25) |
| “I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. 2004. ISBN 1560255803. OCLC 56991027. |
| “In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: Mortality (2013 edition), Atlantic Books Ltd - ISBN: 9780857897657 |
| “The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has — from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: Glazov, Jamie (22 December 2003), Interview with Christopher Hitchens, History News Network |
| “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001) |
| “Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.” ―Christopher Hitchens Source/Notes: God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007) |
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Christopher Hitchens
Born: April 13, 1949
Died: December 15, 2011 (aged 62)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Author, writer, journalist
Bio: Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades. Hitchens, often referred to colloquially as Hitch was a columnist and literary critic for New Statesman, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Mirror, The Times Literary Supplement, Free Inquiry, and Vanity Fair. He was an author of twelve books and five collections of essays.
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