It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The human species is an animal species without very much variation within it, and it is idle and futile to imagine that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is a germ of religion in human nature so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If it did not exceed the capacity of human nature to foretell future events, it would be absurd to employ any prophecy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“And for the matter, or substance of the invisible agents, so fancied; they could not by natural cogitation, fall upon any other… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Never did will of gods bring anything forth out of nothing.” For, in good sooth, it is thus that fear restraineth all… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The duties, which a man performs as a friend or parent, do not seem merely owing to his benefactor or children; nor… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“in order to increase the probability against the testimony of witnesses, let us suppose, that the fact, which they affirm, instead of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Our near absolute dominion over nature has, however, confronted us with one brilliant and ironic and inescapable insight. The decryption of DNA… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the… — 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
“Many readers are familiar with the spirit and the letter of the definition of “prayer,” as given by Ambrose Bierce in his… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“in adversity they know not where to turn, but beg and pray for counsel from every passer-by. No plan is then too… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Upon the whole, then, it appears, that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Design must be proved before a designer can be inferred. The matter in controversy is the existence of design in the Universe,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — 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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