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If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Political, Able

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Christopher Hitchens
Pain, Memories, Impossible
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.40, Atlantic Books Ltd

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

Christopher Hitchens
Home, Cities, Losing

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Christopher Hitchens
Cancer, Long, People
"Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

Christopher Hitchens
Hard Times, Sniping, Investing
"Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens on What It's Really Like in Iraq". "The Big Story With John Gibson", www.foxnews.com. July 24, 2003,.

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Christopher Hitchens
Tolls, Enough
Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5313, NYU Press

I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

Christopher Hitchens
Crazy, Believe, Garden
"Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Christopher Hitchens
Mistake, School, Language
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Christopher Hitchens
Reading, Thinking, Born
Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.309, Atlantic Books Ltd

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Christopher Hitchens
Generosity, People, United States

Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Iraq, Als
"A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq". Book by Christopher Hitchens (published in the United Kingdom as "Regime Change"), 2003.

If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Trying, Covering
Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5319, NYU Press

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

Christopher Hitchens
Attitude, Fighting, Poison

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Christopher Hitchens
Arms, Faces, Force
Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5248, NYU Press

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

Christopher Hitchens
Government, Self, Principles
Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.433, Nation Books

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

Christopher Hitchens
Hussein, Regimes, Saddam
Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5248, NYU Press

There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz.

Christopher Hitchens
Division, Movement, Tests
"Tariq Ali v. Christopher Hitchens: A Debate on the U.S. War on Iraq, the Bush-Kerry Race and the Neo-Conservative Movement". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 12, 2004.

Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.

Christopher Hitchens
Writing, Talking, People
"Christopher Hitchens on his memoir, Hitch-22". "Hugh Hewitt Show", www.hughhewitt.com. July 13, 2010.

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists

Christopher Hitchens
People, Interesting, Religion
Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.164, Atlantic Books Ltd

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Christopher Hitchens
Religious, Book, Ideas

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.

Christopher Hitchens
Religious, Children, Found

The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Cancer, Stupidity
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Risk, East

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Christopher Hitchens
Children, Real, Writing
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.14, Atlantic Books Ltd

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

Christopher Hitchens
Evolution, Capricious, Callous
Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.65, Atlantic Books Ltd

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