Christopher Hitchens

Citations

• “Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.”

• “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.”

• “An old definition of a gentleman: someone who is never rude except on purpose.”

• “Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”

• “We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.”