No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide… — 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
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
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
Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The enormous dynamic and creative, as well as destructive energy of capitalism... is written up with more praise and more respect by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly. — 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
Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an… — 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
Did we not aid the grisly Taliban to achieve and hold power? Yes indeed 'we' did. Well, does that not double or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The prostitute journalist is a familiar and well-understood figure in the Middle East, and Saddam Hussein's regime made lavish use of the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
As well as being a vulgar producer of her own spectacle, and an embarrassment to her family, Cindy Sheehan is at best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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
Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even the most humane and compassionate of the monotheisms and polytheisms are complicit in this quiet and irrational authoritarianism: they proclaim us,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head - chemo-brain they call it. It's awful because you feel boring.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A celebrity is well known for being well known. I'm relatively well known - but for what I've written and said, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might… — 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
I apply the Abraham Lincoln test for moral casuistry: 'If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.' Well, then, if waterboarding does… — 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
Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Unlike other countries, it was founded on written proclamations. America is an ideal as well as a republic. Its documents are open… — 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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