Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

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

"To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?"

"For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them."

"I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected."

"My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it."

"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."

"If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women."

"I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised."

"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."

"Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments."

"Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know."

"I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny."

"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."

"I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."

"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."