Christopher Hitchens

Quotes

• “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. T...”
• “Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dyin...”
• “We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is con...”
• “We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let a...”
• “A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponen...”
• “My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere...”
• “I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the sec...”
• “Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. ...”
• “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anythi...”
• “How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.”
• “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
• “I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.”
• “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
• “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
• “If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”