“What a sight! This infinitely proceeding division of society into the most manifold races opposed to one another by petty antipathies, uneasy… — 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
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them. — 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
“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