Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
“It isn’t so long since a test of Anglican orthodoxy was applied to anyone seeking to study or teach at Oxford and Cambridge universities.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
