Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. C
  4. Christopher Hitchens
  5. War

Christopher Hitchens Quotes about War

All Christopher Hitchens Quotes Age Alcohol Art Atheism Atheist Attitude Belief Bullying Cancer Certainty Challenges Children Choices Christianity Church Concentration Country Crime Culture Democracy Desire Doubt Dying Earth Economy Envy Evidence Evil Evolution Feelings Fighting Fun Giving Greek Hate Hatred Heart Home Innovation Insecurity Inspirational Irony Islam Jesus Language Liars Lifetime Literature Losing Lying Memories Morality Motivational Opportunity Pain Philosophy Politics Praise Prayer Pride Progress Purpose Racism Reading Religion Risk Running Sacrifice School Science Security Sin Skepticism Slavery Son Soul Struggle Stupidity Suffering Surrender Teaching Terrorism Torture Trade Values Violence Virtue Waiting War quotes Wife Writing
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.

Christopher Hitchens
Christian, War, Islamic

The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Army, Catholic
"Tim Russert" (Talk-Show on CNBC), September 25, 2004.

Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's made by the anti-war movement between being over there and over here was exposed for all to see as an illusion. Although a number of people, a large amount of people still share in it. In other words, when I've been in Iraq or Afghanistan, I've probably been safer because I can carry a weapon if I have to, than my wife and daughter are living in Washington.

Christopher Hitchens
Daughter, War, Iraq
Source: www.npr.org

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.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Liars, Years

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

Christopher Hitchens
Hate, War, Winning
Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5204, NYU Press

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.

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.

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 don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Thinking, Enough
"The Left and 9/11" by Adam Shatz, www.thenation.com. September 5, 2002.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Christopher Hitchens
Stars, War, Technology
"Not Even a Hedgehog" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. June 7, 2004.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Fighting, Violence

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

Christopher Hitchens
War, Groups, Ridiculous
Source: www.npr.org

You May Also Like: