If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — 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
Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn't be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — 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
The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Suddenly that it was as dangerous to be in America as it was to be overseas. So that the false distinction that's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,… — 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
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I was to interrupt this article every few sentences, asking you whether or not I was making a good impression on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions… — 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
“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
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
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
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