In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing… — 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
“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There's a certain amount of ambiguity in my background, what with intermarriages and conversions, but under various readings of three codes which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I regard anti-Semitism as ineradicable and as one element of the toxin with which religion has infected us. Perhaps partly for this… — 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
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
“I am not one of those who believes—as Obama is said to believe—that a solution to the Palestinian statehood question would bring… — 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
“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hundred awkward questions to the faithful. He drew upon himself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable… — 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
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. — 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 spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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