Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds― cooled ―and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.

We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.

At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Self-hatred leads to the need either to dominate or to be dominated.

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed.

The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can convince people that the problem is not coming from the top but is, rather, being created by the people who are being oppressed.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

Some of her self-hatred had oozed out with the blood.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.