As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. — 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
Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it. — 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
The moment of near despair is quite often the moment that precedes courage. — 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
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
I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for… — 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
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
Lovers often invest their first meetings with retrospective significance, as if to try to conjure the elements of the numinous out of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I have often wondered, that persons who make a boast of professing the Christian religion, namely, love, joy, peace, temperance, and charity… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If we stay with animal analogies for a moment, owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — 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
If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that… — 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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