Christopher Hitchens Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.”

“It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.”

“No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.”

“Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.”

“I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.”

“You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?”

“I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.”

“Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.”

“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.”

“The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.”