Christopher Hitchens Top 10 Quotes
| 10 | 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. |
| 9 | 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. |
| 8 | Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life - except religion. |
| 7 | Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 5 |
Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins. |
| 4 |
Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. |
| 3 |
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. |
| 2 | The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks. |
| 1 | Take the risk of thinking for yourself; much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. |
