Books Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely…

— Alexander Hamilton

“So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different thing altogether.”

— Margaret Atwood

“And so religions, to a large extent, became divisive rather than unifying forces. Instead of bringing about an ending of violence and hatred through…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Of all the wicked heresies and threatening movements facing the church in our day, when Westminster Seminary finally organized their faculty to write something…

— Anonymous

“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least as much…

— John Stuart Mill

“The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.”

— Timothy Snyder

“without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews”

— Miklós Nyiszli

Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely…

— George Woodcock

“The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to rankling spleen and bigotry; it makes…

— William Hazlitt

“George Orwell wrote disparagingly of “the masochism of the English Left”: its readiness to ally with any cause, however vile, provided it was sufficiently…

— Daniel Hannan

“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low…

— W.H. Auden

“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.”

— Brother Andrew