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It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

Christopher Hitchens
Christmas, Atheist, Holiday
"Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one.

Christopher Hitchens
Cheer, Thinking, Discovery
"Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.

Christopher Hitchens
Clinton, Worst, 1960s

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

Christopher Hitchens
Talking, Alarms, Used
"Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Christopher Hitchens
Information, Journalist, Rely
Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.143, Atlantic Books Ltd

We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we ­persist in self-­centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.

Christopher Hitchens
Dark, Self, Long
Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

Christopher Hitchens
Religious, Names, Action

I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.

Christopher Hitchens
Believe, Discovery, Innovation

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

Christopher Hitchens
Opportunity, Land, Bored

In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.

Christopher Hitchens
Tests, Life Is, Intrusion
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.64, Atlantic Books Ltd

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect.

Christopher Hitchens
Growing, Posts, Sects

When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.

Christopher Hitchens
Writing, Names, One Day
Source: www.abc.net.au

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Christopher Hitchens
Reluctant
"All the Views Fit To Print" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. November 1, 2010.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Christopher Hitchens
People, Occasional, Dies

Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and social democracy are all worth reading. I wouldn't consider anyone truly politically literate if they hadn't given her work at least some study.

Christopher Hitchens
Reading, Intellectual, Democracy

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some of the creepiest forces in American and Israeli society; and d) heaping ordure on our own secular founding documents. When will the Justice Department and the Congress and the Supreme Court become aware of this huge and rank offense, which is designed to bring us ever nearer to holy war?

Christopher Hitchens
War, Mean, Justice
"Your Tax Dollars at Work - in West Bank Settlements" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. July 12, 2010.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

Christopher Hitchens
Crazy, Believe, Intelligent
Source: www.avclub.com

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Christopher Hitchens
Perfect, May, Normal
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.

Christopher Hitchens
Country, President, Essentials

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.

Christopher Hitchens
Children, Childhood, Social
Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.117, Atlantic Books Ltd

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

Christopher Hitchens
Jesus, Punishment, Ideas

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute.

Christopher Hitchens
Party, Scotch, Champion
"Background Briefing" with Kirsten Garrett, www.abc.net.au. August 16, 2009.

Jesus is Santa Claus for Adults.

Christopher Hitchens
Jesus, Santa, Adults
"Nip/Tuck: Joy Kringle [3.13]". TV Series, (2003-2010).

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

Christopher Hitchens
Christian, Atheist, Humility

At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.

Christopher Hitchens
Wine, Oxford, Tutorial

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