It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Today I want to puke when I hear the word 'radical' applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a… — 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
The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite… — 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
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has… — 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
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's… — 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
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of… — 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
![“[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b11/christopher-hitchens-117_belief_concerning-monotheistic-religions-the-on_219156.jpg)
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![“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b21/christopher-hitchens-117_atheism_i-have-met-some-highly-intelligent-belie_3215841.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/img-quotes/a86/christopher-hitchens-117_beautiful_it-s-los-angeles-mostly-full-of-nonsense_10462.jpg)
![“[Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab6/christopher-hitchens-117_action_religion-attacks-us-in-our-deepest-integ_23299.jpg)
