Ugly bags of mostly water. Star Trek: The Next Generation s1e18: Home Soil, Microbrain’s assessment of humans
Cold, patronising, arrogant. Difficult? She’s impossible ... She may look human, she may sound human but she’s all Borg. Star Trek: Voyager s4e14: Message in a Bottle, B’Elanna re Seven of Nine
He is a hound of the lowest sense of political honour, a fool of the lowest judgment and contemptible. Margo Asquith, re Churchill
Bloody damned butchering Nazi pig. The Exorcist 1973 starring Ellen Burstyn & Max von Sydow & Jason Miller & Linda Blair & Lee J Cobb & Kitty Winn & Jack MacGowran & Barton Hayman & Peter Masterson & Arthur Storch & Mercedes McCambridge et al, director William Friedkin, drunken man to old man
Hitler is the commonest little swine I have ever encountered. Neville Chamberlain
My uncle is a monster. Geli Raubal to friend of Hitler
He [Martin Bormann] was the evil spirit of the place because I felt that he was absolutely and thoroughly evil. He always seemed like a noxious toad. Reinhard Spitzy, Adjutant to Hitler
Dear Mr President, General McClellan has almost ruined your administration and the country. He is a do-nothing. He is thinking of the presidency in ’64. He is placating the rebels. That’s what ails him. Depend upon it. Joseph McDill
For a vulgar fraud and crook like the Reverend Falwell it’s an obligation to say what one thinks about him ... Jerry Falwell lived on hatred and superstition and bigotry. Christopher Hitchens, interview Hannity and Colmes, re Falwell’s death
The evil he did will live after him. ibid.
A rapist, a serial rapist, a war criminal and a psychopathic liar. Christopher Hitchens, re Clinton
Cheap and nasty and cynical and brutish and vulgar and crass and course and crude, nasty, unscrupulous, mendacious. Christopher Hitchens, re Clinton
I think he’s [Kissinger] a war criminal. I think he’s a liar. I think he’s responsible for kidnapping, for murder. Christopher Hitchens
This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in the not-too-remote future, the stout heart of Queen Elizabeth II will cease to beat. At that precise moment, her firstborn son will become head of state, head of the armed forces, and head of the Church of England. In strict constitutional terms, this ought not to matter much. The English monarchy, as has been said, reigns but does not rule. From the aesthetic point of view it will matter a bit, because the prospect of a morose bat-eared and chinless man, prematurely aged, and with the most abysmal taste in royal consorts, is a distinctly lowering one. Christopher Hitchens
He’s [Bush] unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated and apparently quite proud of all of these things. Christopher Hitchens, interview Chris Matthews October 2000
George Galloway – someone who’s managed to be both a pimp for and a prostitute of Saddam Hussein in the same cycle. Christopher Hitchens
Ronald Reagan is a fraud. Christopher Hitchens, interview The Nation
The ghastly Mother Teresa – what’s motherly about her? Hideous virgin and fraud and fanatic fundamentalist – shrivelled old bat. Christopher Hitchens, AAI 2007
Under President Reagan illegal money was raised from drugs and from the sale of illegal weapons and the trading in human lives ... And Reagan was president of that secret government ... He was a regular habitual liar. And as for the economy, we are still living with his deficit. Christopher Hitchens, interview The Nation
Ratzinger: an overdressed little ponce who was himself a member of the Hitler youth. Christopher Hitchens
I would describe Mother Teresa as a fraud, a fanatic, and a fundamentalist. Christopher Hitchens, author The Missionary Position
Everything everybody thinks they know about her [Mother Teresa] is false ... She was corrupt, nasty, cynical and cruel. Christopher Hitchens
MT was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. And she was a friend to the worst of the rich, taking misappropriated money from the atrocious Duvalier family in Haiti (whose rule she praised in return) and from Charles Keating of the Lincoln Savings and Loan. Where did that money, and all the other donations, go? The primitive hospice in Calcutta was as run down when she died as it always had been – she preferred California clinics when she got sick herself – and her order always refused to publish any audit. But we have her own claim that she opened 500 convents in more than a hundred countries, all bearing the name of her own order. Excuse me, but this is modesty and humility? Christopher Hitchens, article Slate October 2003
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles’ empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way. Christopher Hitchens
A man so corrupt he would willingly have paid for the pleasure of selling himself. Christopher Hitchens, re Jacques Chirac
Mr Chirac to me as well as being a pimp and a fraud and a man who had to run for re-election in order to preserve his immunity from very serious charges of corruption which still stand against him is a pseudo-republican. Christopher Hitchens, Islam and the West
Of course he’s [Muhammad] not a prophet. I mean he is an epileptic plagiarist. He’s a man who went into spasm to order, and summoned the same angel as he was jealous of the Christians for having ... It’s a boring plagiarism of the worst bits of Judaism and Christianity. Unoriginal rip-off by someone who is clearly mentally ill. ibid.
The big white whale Clinton ... a war criminal, a taker of bribes from foreign dictatorships, almost certainly a rapist ... Executed a black man who was so mentally retarded that he was unable to plead or to understand the charges. Christopher Hitchens, Conversations with History
Many if not most of Kissinger’s partners in crime are now in jail, or are awaiting trial, or have been otherwise punished or discredited. His own lonely impunity is rank; it smells to heaven. If it is allowed to persist then we shall shamefully vindicate the philosopher Anacharsis, who maintained that laws were like cobwebs; strong enough to detain only the weak, and too weak to hold the strong. In the name of innumerable victims known and unknown, it is time for justice to take a hand. Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. ibid.
Mahatma Gandhi is somebody who would have caused millions of Indians to starve, and if we’d listen to him, we’d be worshipping cows. Christopher Hitchens
She was a friend of poverty, a fanatic, a fundamentalist and a fraud. Christopher Hitchens, re Mother Theresa
[Mother Theresa] was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions. Christopher Hitchens, cited Slate 2003 Mommie Dearest
Widely and uncritically accepted … the saintliness of an Albanian nun … extravagant adulation … so how did this auction of hyperbole and credulity get started? Christopher Hitchens, Hell’s Angel: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Channel 4 1994
This profane marriage between tawdry media hype and media superstition. ibid.
Mother Teresa’s cult of death and suffering depends for its effect on the most vulnerable and helpless. ibid.
For someone whose kingdom is not of this Earth Mother Teresa has an easy way with thrones, dominions and powers. ibid.
An ally of the status quo … a trusted ally of the conservative forces. ibid.
Augustine was a self-centred fantasist and earth-centred ignoramus. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great
Had he been given an enema he could have been buried in a matchbox. Christopher Hitchens, Freedom from Religion Foundation 2007, re Jerry Falwell
Disgustingly evil man. Christopher Hitchens, re Billy Graham
You are a sick, soulless, twisted human being. Hannity & Holmes, to Phelps’ mother