She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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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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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different 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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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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