It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? [...] How… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It is a horrible idea that there is somebody who owns us, who makes us, who supervises us - waking and sleeping… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the socialist movement, by removing many, many people from grinding stagnation and poverty and overwork, does enable people not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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
Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The… — 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
Along with Islam and Christianity, Judaism does insist that some turgid and contradictory and sometimes evil and mad texts, obviously written by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its… — 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
The United States has an isolationist and insular culture, combined with a global and interventionist posture. This highly dangerous and febrile mixture,… — 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
I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Totalitarian is a cliché, dictatorship is based on clichéd thinking, on very tried and tested uniform stuff. They don't mind that they're… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way. (Closing statement… — 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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