Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

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.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The sin of certainty leaves no room for the rest of us.

Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding.

The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

Dislike of another’s opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.