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
When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In particular, it is absurd to hope to banish envy of other people's possessions or fortunes, if only because the spirit of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly… — 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
Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The stupider the regime the more intelligent the people get and the more humorous. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've noticed that the more flooding there is, the more bullshit gets talked. I mean it was very noticeable in the Asian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or… — 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
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — 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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