Top 172 Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved.

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

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.