I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case… — 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
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have millions and millions of North Korean children totally stunted in mind and body and will have to be dealt with… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by… — 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
![“I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f8f/christopher-hitchens-117_arguing_i-m-quite-convinced-in-my-own-mind-that_3041487.jpg)
![“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 aren't even young and beautiful now.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
![“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab6/christopher-hitchens-117_action_religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integ_23299.jpg)
