People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . — 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
I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It must be obvious to anyone who can think at all that the charges against the Hussein regime are, as concerns arsenals… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we have free will, by definition we cannot be granted it. We can't be given it. My [-audio-recording-distorted-] paradox states that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given… — 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
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could not possibly improve on the sentiment, but I don't think it ought to depend on the current austerities. Isn't Christmas… — 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
We have no proof that Socrates ever existed. We only know from witnesses to his life that he did. Like Jesus, he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think the cultural task is to separate our impulses and needs and desires from the supernatural and, above all, from the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I think everybody has had the experience at some point when they feel that there's more to life than just matter. But… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people… — 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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