I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just… — 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
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god;… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Knowing that we are primates, I think, is a fascinating discovery, and a very interesting and rather cheering one. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement… — 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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![“If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/38d/christopher-hitchens-117_audio_if-we-have-free-will-by-definition-we-ca_2644187.jpg)
![“I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f8f/christopher-hitchens-117_arguing_i-m-quite-convinced-in-my-own-mind-that_3041487.jpg)
![“Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/74d/christopher-hitchens-117_century_everything-everyone-thinks-they-know-abo_161927.jpg)
