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
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 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
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
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
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
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and… — 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
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
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
We know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he… — 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
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 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
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
I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to… — 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
I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, "I'm opposed to it." I don't think it deserves to be celebrated, at… — 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
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
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
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]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
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
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
An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.… — 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
“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
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
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
[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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
Writing is what's important to me, and anything that helps me do that - or enhances and prolongs and deepens and sometimes intensifies argument… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share
![“I'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/christopher-hitchens-117_arguing_i-m-quite-convinced-in-my-own-mind-that_3041487.jpg)
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![“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 'Of course we have free will, we have no choice.' To say that it's a gift is to negate the whole concept of free will on its face. So, if that isn't self-evident…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38d/christopher-hitchens-117_audio_if-we-have-free-will-by-definition-we-ca_2644187.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/i/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
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