Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and… — 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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