Top 172 Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

About Christopher Hitchens

These are some quotes by American author Christopher Hitchens Author, who lived between April 13, 1949 and December 15, 2011.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

Christopher Hitchens

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Christopher Hitchens

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Christopher Hitchens

I'm not a sheep.

I'm not a sheep.

Christopher Hitchens

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Christopher Hitchens

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

Christopher Hitchens

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.

Christopher Hitchens

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Christopher Hitchens

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of the stubborn witness of the everyday.

Christopher Hitchens

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