No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread… — 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
A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. — 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
In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human,… — 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 could be spending time looking through a telescope or into a microscope and finding out the most extraordinary, wonderful things, but… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm not afraid of being dead, that's to say there's nothing to be afraid of. I won't know I'm dead, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan,… — 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
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to… — 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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