“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They… — 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
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
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
“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
“But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps… — 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
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — 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
By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by… — 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
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Suppose that we agree that the two atrocities can or may be mentioned in the same breath. Why should we do so?… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Upon the whole, then, it appears, that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“James Madison, the author of the First Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any law respecting an establishment of religion, was also an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Finally, I want to come to the question of sex. If anything proves that religion is not just man-made but masculine-made, it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I am not even an atheist so much as an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,… — 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
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There still remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because… — 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
![“Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy . . . and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described [Mussolini] as 'a man sent by…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg)
