Atheism Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

— Christopher Hitchens

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.

— Christopher Hitchens

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

— Christopher Hitchens

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

— Christopher Hitchens

“If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast.”

— Christopher Hitchens

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

— Christopher Hitchens

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but... Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)”

— Christopher Hitchens

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

— Christopher Hitchens

Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.

— Christopher Hitchens

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

— Christopher Hitchens

“The sad thing is that so many people, in the belief that the universe is organized to suit and influence them, are…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe…

— Christopher Hitchens

Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This is a small episode in an unending argument between those who know they are right and therefore claim the mandate of…

— Christopher Hitchens

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better,…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did…

— Christopher Hitchens

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of god and those that demonstrate the…

— Christopher Hitchens

The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The human species – mammalian primates though undoubtedly (s)he is, and made out of the dust of exploded suns - does have…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

“Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“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

“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet…

— Christopher Hitchens

“What struck me, in reading the reports from Sri Lanka, was the mild disgrace of belonging to our imperfectly evolved species in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“To be charitable, one may admit that the religious often seem unaware of how insulting their main proposition actually is. Exchange views…

— Christopher Hitchens

“When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos , or the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and…

— Christopher Hitchens