By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the… — 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
She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind… — 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
How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But you'll notice, you will notice that Russia and China, invariably at the United Nations, move to block American action, to repress… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some… — 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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