If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
"Objective" means that, in a confrontation with the evidence, you would be willing to change your own mind. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions… — 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
If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries . — 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
The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the… — 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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