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
“And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith.… — 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
“We may not be, as we used to boast, the only ones who can deploy vocal communication for sheer pleasure and recreation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll… — 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
I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for… — 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
Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile… — 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
I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
American author Mark Twain, while viewed as liberal and non-judgmental, did at times demonstrate both these characteristics. While his reasons for detesting… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For some reason, which I believe I can guess, the churches/mosques want control of people when or while they are the most… — 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
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The first thing I can remember I ever wanted was to go to the United States. And for reasons that are as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad. — 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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