Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTerrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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