Christopher Hitchens Quotes - Page 16

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• What happens to the faith healer and the shaman when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up, or to the diviner from the heavens when schoolteachers get hold of elementary telescopes.

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  Heaven, Drug, Citizens

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.

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  Looks, Half, World

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by Marx and Engels in the 1848 Communist Manifesto than probably by anyone since. I don't think anyone has ever said so precisely and with such awed admiration how great capitalism is, how inventive, how innovative, how dynamic, how much force of creativity it unleashes.

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  Creativity, Thinking, Creative

  "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism". PBS documentary, June 2005.

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• I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom.

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  Boredom, Dies, Sheer

  Christopher Hitchens (2015). “And Yet...: Essays”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

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  Uganda, Korea, Eritrea

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• Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

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  Values

  "The Free Market Cargo Cult (1990)". "For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 1993.

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• There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.

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  Baby, Nice, Differences

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• How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.

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  Thinking, Kind, Bits

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.140, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

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  Firsts, Worst

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

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  Believe, Promise, Cease

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.82, Basic Books

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• Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.

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  Integrity, Decision, Able

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• The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

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  Loneliness, Self, Bucks

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.67, Basic Books

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• It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals of genocidal weaponry, true.

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  Thinking, Hussein, Regimes

  "Christopher Hitchens Quits Nation". www.scotsman.com. September 27, 2002.

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• If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on you, I hope and believe that you would think I was a servile jerk. Yet this is what our politicians are doing in every speech.

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  Believe, Thinking, Political

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• Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

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  Principles, Way, Individual

  Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Why Orwell Matters”, p.83, Basic Books

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• What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

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  Prayer, What If, Factions

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

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  Cancer, Self, Temptation

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• My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.

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  Years, Chiefs, Consolation

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

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  Children, Knowing, Expectations

  "British writer Christopher Hitchens dies". "PM", www.abc.net.au. December 16, 2011.

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• I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

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  Scythes, Reaper, Bores

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.9, Hachette UK

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

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  Ideas, Unconscious

  "He Knew He Was Right" by Ian Parker, www.newyorker.com. October 16, 2006.

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• 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.

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  New York, Thinking, Air

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.195, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to speak in the name of god don't take more advantage of this relief.

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  Names, Relief, Speak

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• In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I was a Jew. I was then a transplanted Englishman in America, married, with one son and, though unconsoled by any religion, a nonbelieving member of two Christian churches. On hearing the tidings, I was pleased to find that I was pleased.

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  Christian, Brother, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.317, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

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  Wish, Credit, Good Things

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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