Christopher Hitchens Quotes
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion.
Atheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.
There will always be rewards as well as punishments for people with the courage of their convictions.
Everyone has a book in them.. and in most cases that is where it should stay.
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.
I can't hate anyone whose existence I don't really believe.
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
Why, if God was the creator of all things, were we supposed to "praise" him for what came naturally?
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information.
I personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
To "choose" dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Nothing concentrates the mind more than reading about oneself in the past tense.
Civility is overrated.
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.
Heaven is a place of endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins.
Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?
What kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semistupefied peasents in desert regions?
The awful thing about growing older is that you begin to notice how every day consists of more and more subtracted from less and less.
Being a writer is what I am, rather than what I do.
Glorious defeats often have a greater emotional effect than muddy victories.
The death wish, or something nor unlike it, may be secretly present in all of us.
