--- title: "7 Sinister Quotes By Christopher Hitchens" description: "7 Sinister quotes by Christopher Hitchens. Plus more from Christopher Hitchens and more Sinister sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e3/christopher-hitchens-117_animal_faith-is-the-surrender-of-the-mind-it-s_1161936.jpg" --- > [Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/faith-is-the-surrender-of-the-mind-it-s-the-surrender-of-reason-it-s/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e3/christopher-hitchens-117_animal_faith-is-the-surrender-of-the-mind-it-s_1161936.jpg) > [I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-can-never-quite-decide-whether-the-anti-columbus-movement-is-merely/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5dd/christopher-hitchens-117_celebration_i-can-never-quite-decide-whether-the-ant_1215939.jpg) > [To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/to-describe-this-film-as-dishonest-and-demagogic-would-almost-be-to-2/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/christopher-hitchens-117_crap_to-describe-this-film-as-dishonest-and-d_1285009.jpg) > [I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-am-not-even-an-atheist-so-much-as-i-am-an-antitheist-i-not-only/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/132/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-am-not-even-an-atheist-so-much-as-i-am_1834833.jpg) > [The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-reading-public-isn-t-born-that-doesn-t-think-foreigners-are/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/christopher-hitchens-117_born_the-reading-public-isn-t-born-that-doesn_1871272.jpg) > [(Howard) Dean is a raving nut bag...a raving, sinister, demagogic nutbag...I and a few other people saw that he should be destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/howard-dean-is-a-raving-nut-bag-a-raving-sinister-demagogic-nutbag-i/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cd/christopher-hitchens-117_bags_howard-dean-is-a-raving-nut-bag-a-raving_2072494.jpg) > [Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/faith-is-the-surrender-of-the-mind-it-s-the-surrender-of-reason-it-s-2/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/043/christopher-hitchens-117_animal_faith-is-the-surrender-of-the-mind-it-s_2640843.jpg) ## More by Christopher Hitchens > [“The spirit of our accurate and exact philosophy is outraged by conclusions that contradict each other so glaringly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/the-spirit-of-our-accurate-and-exact-philosophy-is-outraged-by/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/many-governments-employ-torture-but-this-was-the-first-time-that-the/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense-and-delusion-and-egomania/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/to-be-against-rationalization-is-not-the-same-as-to-be-opposed-to/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [ \[Religion\] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integrity-the-core-of-our-self/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [“In the very recent past, we have seen the Church of Rome befouled by its complicity with the unpardonable sin of child rape, or,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/in-the-very-recent-past-we-have-seen-the-church-of-rome-befouled-by/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-surprising-to-me-how-many-of-my-friends-send-christmas-cards-or/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/suppose-there-were-groups-of-secularists-at-hospitals-who-went-round/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/there-are-after-all-atheists-who-say-they-wish-the-fable-were-true/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-isn-t-so-long-since-a-test-of-anglican-orthodoxy-was-applied-to/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/gullibility-and-credulity-are-considered-undesireable-qualities-in/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-much-worse-to-see-a-woman-drunk-than-a-man-i-don-t-know-quite/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/it-s-true-that-obscenity-is-a-matter-of-taste-and-in-the-eye-of-the/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-worked-out-early-on-to-give-up-things-i-couldn-t-do-well-at-all/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) > [Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/writing-is-what-s-important-to-me-and-anything-that-helps-me-do-that/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sinister/christopher-hitchens/#itemlist", "name": "7 Sinister Quotes By Christopher Hitchens", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. 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