My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled... — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no English surname, however ancient and dignified, that cannot instantly be improved by the prefix ‘Spanker’. — 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
“People say, "What’s it like to be a minority of one, or a kick-bag for the Internet?" It washes off me like… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... — 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
One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself. — 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
