Faith Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Christopher Hitchens

I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Created sick, and then commanded to be well.” This is one of the first, easiest, and most obvious of the satirical maxims…

— Christopher Hitchens

it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or…

— Christopher Hitchens

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There is, especially in the American media, a deep belief that insincerity is better than no sincerity at all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“[T]o believe in a god is in one way to express a willingness to believe in anything. Whereas to reject the belief…

— 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

“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than 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

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at…

— Christopher Hitchens

I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Religion is, after all, more than the belief in a supreme being. It is the cult of that supreme being and the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be…

— 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

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

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

— 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

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

— Christopher Hitchens

“The belief of an infinity of creative and created Gods, each more eminently requiring an intelligent author of his being than the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He thought human life a poor thing at best, after the freshness of youth and of unsatisfied curiosity had gone by. This…

— 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 know not how I contrived to get the subject of immortality introduced. He said he never had entertained any belief in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It’s quite a task to combat the absolutists and the relativists at the same time: to maintain that there is no totalitarian…

— Christopher Hitchens

“You allege some considerations in favor of a Deity from the universality of a belief in his existence. The superstitions of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power…

— Christopher Hitchens

“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and it is a sure method of exposing it to put…

— 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

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.

— Christopher Hitchens

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

— Christopher Hitchens

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone…

— Christopher Hitchens

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of…

— Christopher Hitchens

If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose…

— Christopher Hitchens