There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded. — 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