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Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.

Christopher Hitchens
Stupid, Taken, Thinking
"Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. May 18, 2004.

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Christopher Hitchens
Years, Old Friends, Lessons
Christopher Hitchens (2014). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.336, Atlantic Books Ltd

Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .

Christopher Hitchens
Would Be, Tactics, Revolutionary
"Murder was their only motive" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

Demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

Christopher Hitchens
Believe, Peaceful, Demand

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

Christopher Hitchens
Talking, Adults, Existence

Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open to revisions. They're works in progress. There's an invitation to participate.

Christopher Hitchens
Country, America, Progress
Source: www.usatoday.com

A good liar must have a good memory.

Christopher Hitchens
Memories, Liars, Good Memories
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “The Trial of Henry Kissinger”, p.88, Atlantic Books Ltd

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

Christopher Hitchens
People, Soul, Wish

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

Christopher Hitchens
Food, Book, Machines

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

Christopher Hitchens
Nihilist, Opposition
Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.12, Basic Books

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

Christopher Hitchens
Humans, Human Society
Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.760, Atlantic Books Ltd

Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact of 1929. Under the terms of this deal, Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy, with monopoly powers over matters such as birth, marriage, death, and education, and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described II Duce (“the leader”) as “a man sent by providence.”

Christopher Hitchens
Party, Men, Europe
"God Is Not Great".

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Christopher Hitchens
Religion, Moral, Persons

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Christopher Hitchens
School, Knows, Compulsory
"Transcripts and audio: Christopher Hitchens on not believing". Interview With John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 26, 2010.

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

Christopher Hitchens
Claims, Evidence, Exceptional
"God Is Not Great". Book by Christopher Hitchens, Chapter Ten: The Tawdriness Of The Miraculous And The Decline Of Hell (p. 143), 2007.

No child's behind left.

Christopher Hitchens
Children, Religion, Behinds
Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

Christopher Hitchens
Strong, Self Esteem, Responsibility
"The Case Against Henry Kissinger. Part Two. Crimes against humanity". www.thirdworldtraveler.com. March 2001.

Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

Christopher Hitchens
Tyrants, Choices, Religion
Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But I think it's very important to keep that under control and not to hand it over to be exploited by priests and shamans and rabbis and other riffraff.

Christopher Hitchens
Thinking, Hands, Important
Source: www.wanliss.com

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.

Christopher Hitchens
Book, Writing, Good Day

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

Christopher Hitchens
Military, War, Father
Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Christopher Hitchens
Atheist, Thinking

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

Christopher Hitchens
People, British, Interest

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

Christopher Hitchens
Ideas, Lifetime, My Own
Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.251, Hachette UK

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

Christopher Hitchens
Struggle, Ironic, Mind

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