The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The… — 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
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god;… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be… — 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
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment,… — 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
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one'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
![“The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle them. In what sense does the independence of Kosovo, a land-locked province, former Yugoslavia, with no common border with Russia, threaten Russia with…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ebc/christopher-hitchens-117_borders_the-russians-are-going-to-be-expansionis_130903.jpg)
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