I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.” — 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
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
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
Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their… — 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
It's a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don't pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That's what… — 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
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But here are wine and beautiful young girls, Be wise and hide your sorrows in their curls, Dive as you will in… — 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
“From Alan Lightman's intricate 1993 novel Einstein's Dreams; set in Berne in 1905: With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Like so many of life's varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of malignant cancer has a tendency to wear off.… — 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
“Finally, I want to come to the question of sex. If anything proves that religion is not just man-made but masculine-made, it… — 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
“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life.… — 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
“I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers,-and that the aspiration for a civilized life… — 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
[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
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
“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
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 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
If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by… — 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
“as with the normal life, one finds that every passing day represents more and more relentlessly subtracted from less and less. In… — 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
“Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Arguments for atheism can be divided into two main categories: those that dispute the existence of god and those that demonstrate the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You allege some considerations in favor of a Deity from the universality of a belief in his existence. The superstitions of the… — 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
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
“One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people… — 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
![“[O]ne has to have endured a few decades before wanting, let alone needing, to embark on the project of recovering lost life. And I think it may be possible to review 'the chronicles of wasted time.' William Morris wrote in The Dream of John Ball that men fight for things and then lose the battle…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/christopher-hitchens-117_age_o-ne-has-to-have-endured-a-few-decades-b_1102939.jpg)
![“[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fdc/christopher-hitchens-117_careers_i-n-a-place-with-absolutely-no-private-o_2369194.jpg)
![“[Religious belief] is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you - who must, indeed, subject you - to total surveillance…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/christopher-hitchens-117_dead-man_religious-belief-is-a-totalitarian-belie_2768846.jpg)
