Christopher Hitchens

Death Quotes

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox. -
Christopher Hitchens
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Family Quotes

In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. -
Christopher Hitchens

Death Quotes

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse. -
Christopher Hitchens
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Death Quotes

Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed. -
Christopher Hitchens

Truth Quotes

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it. -
Christopher Hitchens
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Friendship Quotes

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off -
Christopher Hitchens