Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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• To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
• Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
• If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
• There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of…
• Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for…
• In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.
• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
• If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
• Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
• The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
• Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
• Religion fosters servility and solipsism.
• Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
• [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…
• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep…
• I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.
• In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the…
• Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though…
• Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
• What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

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