Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist.
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. Use this quote
To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? Use this quote
