Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things. . . . You… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I want to live my life taking the risk - all the time - that I don't know anything like-enough yet, that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“To begin with a summary of Paine’s astonishing life and career is to commence with a sense of wonder that he was… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
“Question: “What do you most value in your friends?" Answer: "Their continued existence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“It is sometimes argued that disbelief in a fearful and tempting heavenly despotism makes life into something arid and tedious and cynical:… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — 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
“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Shrouded as he was for a decade in an apparent cloak of anonymity and obscurity, Osama bin Laden was by no means… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Edward genially enough did not dis agree with what I said, but he didn't seem to admit my point, either. I wanted… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — 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
“Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the… — 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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