Evelyn Waugh was in error when he said that in New York there was a neurosis in the air which the inhabitants… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.'… — 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
As I've said before, you can be an atheist and anything you like. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by… — 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
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the… — 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
North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It… — 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
I could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but… — 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
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if… — 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
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was 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
![“North Korea is a necrocracy, or a mauselocracy or a thanatocracy in which the one [Kim Il-sung] is diffused into being with the other [Kim Jong Il], and where both of them are said to have had miraculous births attended by miraculous phenomena such as, for example, birds singing in Korean, when…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c06/christopher-hitchens-117_bird_north-korea-is-a-necrocracy-or-a-mauselo_857952.jpg)
![“In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0bc/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_in-a-public-dialogue-with-salman-in-lond_1754125.jpg)
![“MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/964/christopher-hitchens-117_cures_mt-mother-teresa-was-not-a-friend-of-the_3074896.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)
