Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by… — 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… — 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
We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ The quality you most admire in a man? Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a… — 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
![“Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man made and what you have to show [is] there internal inconsistencies and absurdities. One of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dfe/christopher-hitchens-117_ability_mockery-of-religion-is-one-of-the-most-e_1545572.jpg)
![“He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/617/christopher-hitchens-117_george-w_he-s-a-man-george-w-bush-who-is-lucky-to_2157654.jpg)
![“Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy . . . and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described [Mussolini] as 'a man sent by…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg)
![“In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [sic], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb3/christopher-hitchens-117_action_in-the-aftermath-of-the-recent-wave-acti_2727358.jpg)
![“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 aren't even young and beautiful now.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
![“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab6/christopher-hitchens-117_action_religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integ_23299.jpg)
