All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? Atheist
- 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… Ability
- If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is. Atheist
- 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… Atheist
- Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for… Atheist
- In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain. Abortion
- 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… Absolutely
- If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day. Bad
- 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.… Asks
- The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or… Atheism
- Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. Anything Important
- Religion fosters servility and solipsism. Atheism
- 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… Assume
- [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… Act
- 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… Abasement
- I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. Atheism
- 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… Boiled
- 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… Any
- 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… Able
- What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Dislike
- MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.… Compulsory
- My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any… Any
- How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of… Anything Else
- Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant… Alleged
- Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state? Conflict