I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Created sick, and then commanded to be well.” This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religion is, after all, more than the belief in a supreme being. It is the cult of that supreme being and the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You allege some considerations in favor of a Deity from the universality of a belief in his existence. The superstitions of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose… — 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
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