Christopher Hitchens Quotes about Risk

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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

Christopher Hitchens

Thinking, Texas, Risk

Christopher Hitchens' closing remarks at Hitchens-Dembski debate at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, www.youtube.com. November 18, 2010.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Christopher Hitchens

Thinking, Risk, Greatest Atheist

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Christopher Hitchens

Giving, Risk, Want

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

Christopher Hitchens

Sacrifice, Risk, Titles

Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.1, Basic Books

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

Christopher Hitchens

Writing, Self, Risk

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

Christopher Hitchens

Running, People, Risk

Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.303, 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

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness.

Christopher Hitchens

Running, Exercise, Risk

"American right vows to settle score as Bush's nemesis turns up the heat" by Lawrence Donegan, Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.