Humans Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

— Christopher Hitchens

Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds.

— Christopher Hitchens

You can't have occupation and human rights.

— Christopher Hitchens

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

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The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle…

— Christopher Hitchens

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

— Christopher Hitchens

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a…

— Christopher Hitchens

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

— Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh…

— Christopher Hitchens

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person…

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Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable…

— Christopher Hitchens

Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect…

— Christopher Hitchens

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not…

— Christopher Hitchens

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate…

— 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

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human,…

— Christopher Hitchens

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just…

— Christopher Hitchens

Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take…

— Christopher Hitchens

[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from…

— Christopher Hitchens

Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The…

— Christopher Hitchens

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight…

— Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so enduring.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

— Christopher Hitchens

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

— Christopher Hitchens

Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by…

— Christopher Hitchens

One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who…

— Christopher Hitchens

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did…

— Christopher Hitchens

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change…

— Christopher Hitchens

In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was…

— Christopher Hitchens