Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power… — 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
“I know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Authors as diverse as Matthew Arnold and George Orwell have given thought to the serious question: what is to be done about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“This observation, then, holds universally: But still one may be at some loss to account for it. It is not sufficient to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hence the greatest crimes have been found, in many instances, compatible with a superstitious piety and devotion; Hence, it is justly regarded… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“We are not immune to the lure of wonder and mystery and awe: we have music and art and literature, and find… — 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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