The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the… — 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 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
Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. — 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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