No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — 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
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How… — 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
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — 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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