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
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What I used to say to people, when I was much more engagé myself, is that you can't be apolitical. It will… — 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
Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used to employ the method of "evidence against interest"; in other words of deciding that a critique of capital punishment,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove… — 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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