Christopher Hitchens Quotes

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

It is hate that binds people together. Love is personal.

Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

No one is born with hate in their heart. Hate is something that has been taught. It is not an innate survival skill that we need; It is a form of stupidity that penetrates our minds and will eventually destroy us.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

No one is born hating others.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

We can scarcely hate any one that we know.