--- title: "25 Claims Quotes By Christopher Hitchens" description: "25 Claims quotes by Christopher Hitchens. Plus more from Christopher Hitchens and more Claims sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_exceptional-claims-require-exceptional-e_2330539.jpg" --- > [Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/exceptional-claims-require-exceptional-evidence/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_exceptional-claims-require-exceptional-e_2330539.jpg) > [ \[E\]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/e-xceptional-claims-demand-exceptional-evidence/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/973/christopher-hitchens-117_atheist_e-xceptional-claims-demand-exceptional-e_2993815.jpg) > [I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with-ridicule-hatred-and-contempt/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with_708509.jpg) > [The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-easiest-way-to-establish-a-dictatorship-is-to-claim-you-are-god-s/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_the-easiest-way-to-establish-a-dictators_1684801.jpg) > [What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/what-better-way-for-a-ruling-class-to-claim-and-hold-power-than-to/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2d/christopher-hitchens-117_better-way_what-better-way-for-a-ruling-class-to-cl_2347816.jpg) > [I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-have-been-called-arrogant-myself-in-my-time-and-hope-to-earn-the-2/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca3/christopher-hitchens-117_arrogant_i-have-been-called-arrogant-myself-in-my_1737528.jpg) > [Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/forgotten-were-the-elementary-rules-of-logic-that-extraordinary/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d19/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_forgotten-were-the-elementary-rules-of-l_2607917.jpg) > [It's amazing how relaxing it is not to claim you know more than you do. I'm surprised that those who claim to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-amazing-how-relaxing-it-is-not-to-claim-you-know-more-than-you/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15c/christopher-hitchens-117_advantage_it-s-amazing-how-relaxing-it-is-not-to-c_2668894.jpg) > [The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-role-of-dissident-is-not-and-should-not-be-a-claim-of-membership/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b8/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_the-role-of-dissident-is-not-and-should_2039956.jpg) > [The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-person-who-is-certain-and-who-claims-divine-warrant-for-his/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/506/christopher-hitchens-117_certain_the-person-who-is-certain-and-who-claims_980161.jpg) > [Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/jesus-makes-large-claims-for-his-heavenly-father-but-never-mentions/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d37/christopher-hitchens-117_appearance_jesus-makes-large-claims-for-his-heavenl_1389288.jpg) > [I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don't see why anybody does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-do-not-believe-any-of-the-statistical-claims-that-are-made-about/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f2/christopher-hitchens-117_believe_i-do-not-believe-any-of-the-statistical_706923.jpg) > [My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/my-own-opinion-is-enough-for-me-and-i-claim-the-right-to-have-it/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/christopher-hitchens-117_ass_my-own-opinion-is-enough-for-me-and-i-cl_2331126.jpg) > [My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/my-own-opinion-is-enough-for-me-and-i-claim-the-right-to-defend-it/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ff/christopher-hitchens-117_ass_my-own-opinion-is-enough-for-me-and-i-cl_1658970.jpg) > [No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/no-nothing-is-sacred-and-even-if-there-were-to-be-something-called/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/989/christopher-hitchens-117_able_no-nothing-is-sacred-and-even-if-there-w_110864.jpg) > [It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-a-curious-thing-in-american-life-that-the-most-abject-nonsense/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/christopher-hitchens-117_american-life_it-s-a-curious-thing-in-american-life-th_2941131.jpg) > [ I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that \[s\]he knew or understood the mind of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-believers-but-history-has-no/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b21/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-belie_3215841.jpg) > [It is a pity that...the majority of feminists and their allies have stuck to the dead ground of "Me Decade" possessive individualism,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-is-a-pity-that-the-majority-of-feminists-and-their-allies-have/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1eb/christopher-hitchens-117_abortion_it-is-a-pity-that-the-majority-of-femini_1045196.jpg) > [There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-are-many-many-discrepant-views-within-the-shia-theology-about/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/christopher-hitchens-117_appropriate_there-are-many-many-discrepant-views-wit_3085030.jpg) > [I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-am-not-even-an-atheist-so-much-as-i-am-an-antitheist-i-not-only/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-am-not-even-an-atheist-so-much-as-i-am_1834833.jpg) > [Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/our-weapons-are-the-ironic-mind-against-the-literal-the-open-mind/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/189/christopher-hitchens-117_adulation_our-weapons-are-the-ironic-mind-against_611944.jpg) > [Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/islam-makes-very-large-claims-for-itself-in-its-art-there-is-a/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/152/christopher-hitchens-117_absolutes_islam-makes-very-large-claims-for-itself_1358040.jpg) > [Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/islam-in-its-origins-is-just-as-shady-and-approximate-as-those-from/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b2/christopher-hitchens-117_absolutely-nothing_islam-in-its-origins-is-just-as-shady-an_1087250.jpg) > [Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/those-of-us-who-write-and-study-history-are-accustomed-to-its/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/548/christopher-hitchens-117_ambiguity_those-of-us-who-write-and-study-history_497815.jpg) > [We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/we-have-lived-in-a-world-where-the-discoveries-of-physics-and/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ca/christopher-hitchens-117_awe_we-have-lived-in-a-world-where-the-disco_1248511.jpg) ## Other authors on Claims ## More by Christopher Hitchens > [“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-spirit-of-our-accurate-and-exact-philosophy-is-outraged-by/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/many-governments-employ-torture-but-this-was-the-first-time-that-the/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense-and-delusion-and-egomania/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/to-be-against-rationalization-is-not-the-same-as-to-be-opposed-to/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [ \[Religion\] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integrity-the-core-of-our-self/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/in-the-very-recent-past-we-have-seen-the-church-of-rome-befouled-by/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-surprising-to-me-how-many-of-my-friends-send-christmas-cards-or/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/suppose-there-were-groups-of-secularists-at-hospitals-who-went-round/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-are-after-all-atheists-who-say-they-wish-the-fable-were-true/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-isn-t-so-long-since-a-test-of-anglican-orthodoxy-was-applied-to/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/gullibility-and-credulity-are-considered-undesireable-qualities-in/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-much-worse-to-see-a-woman-drunk-than-a-man-i-don-t-know-quite/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-true-that-obscenity-is-a-matter-of-taste-and-in-the-eye-of-the/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-worked-out-early-on-to-give-up-things-i-couldn-t-do-well-at-all/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/writing-is-what-s-important-to-me-and-anything-that-helps-me-do-that/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claims/christopher-hitchens/#itemlist", "name": "25 Claims Quotes By Christopher Hitchens", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/exceptional-claims-require-exceptional-evidence/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_exceptional-claims-require-exceptional-e_2330539.jpg", "contentUrl": 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