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My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.


Christopher Hitchens

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front f...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS [Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Naz...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS [R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the sp...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, i...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the childre...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I'm terrified of losing my voice.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I wanted to write.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What word or expression do you most overuse? Re-reading a collection of my stuff, I was rathe...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Stuck in my own trap of writing about a nonsubject, I think I can defend my own self-respect, and al...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He h...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks c...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that'...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite agai...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS [T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made u...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle a...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of work for the tempestuous Lucretia Stewart, then...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS [I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous t...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks...
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