All Christopher Hitchens Quotes
- Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. Been
- When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen Cds
- Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever. Action
- 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 all… Adopt
- In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want… Best
- I have often thought that when I do die it will be of sheer boredom... Boredom
- I am, I hope, never offensive by accident. Accident
- 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 ever… Drunk
- In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a… Advance
- HeroÂism breaks its heart, and ideÂalÂism its back, on the intranÂsiÂgence of the credÂuÂlous and the mediocre, manipÂuÂlated by the cynÂiÂcal and the corrupt. Al
- Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.… Another Clear
- A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory. Good
- Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed… Asserted
- If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world. Age
- All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan, isn't it? With… Absolutely
- Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us… Been
- No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or… Able
- What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, Answered
- My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends, Been
- The crucial distinction between systems...was no longer ideological. The main political difference was between those who did, and those who did not, believe that the… Believe