Atheist Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

— Christopher Hitchens

As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make…

— 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

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

— 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

The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god;…

— 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

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty…

— Christopher Hitchens

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

— Christopher Hitchens

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I…

— 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

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not…

— Christopher Hitchens

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass…

— 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

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the…

— 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 prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved…

— 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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take…

— Christopher Hitchens

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or…

— Christopher Hitchens

I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The…

— Christopher Hitchens

I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions…

— 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

“The atheist generally says (though the bold Dr. Victor Stenger goes a bit further) that the existence of a deity cannot be…

— Christopher Hitchens

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

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 have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because…

— Christopher Hitchens

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is…

— Christopher Hitchens