Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is truth, in the old saying, that is 'the daughter of time,' and the lapse of half a century has not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“With what contempt and suspicion, then, must one regard those who are no willing to wait, and who beguile themselves and terrify… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I do not set myself up as a moral exemplar, and would be swiftly knocked down if I did, but if I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Now, religion professes a special role in the protection and instruction of children. "Woe to him," says the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoyevsky's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of the very many connections between religious belief an the sinister, spoiled, selfish childhood of our species is the repressed desire… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We have no way to quantify the damage done by telling tens of millions of children that masturbation will make them blind,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... 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
