No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — 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
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
I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A sort of moral blackmail is exerted from both poles. The underclass, one gathers, should be dulled with charity and welfare provision… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. — 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
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the… — 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
There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove… — 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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