What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In whatever kind of a “race” life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — 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
“It is often said, inside the Church and out of it, that there is something grotesque about lectures on the sexual life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring… — 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
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Question: “What do you most value in your friends?" Answer: "Their continued existence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For me, the life of the angler is an almost flawless example of how not to have a good time. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“why has the blowjob had a dual existence for so long, sometimes subterranean and sometimes flaunted, before bursting into plain view as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of 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
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