Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.

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.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.