1,197 Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

In our world, surely the worst thing anyone can say is; ‘No further inquiry is needed. You’ve already got all you need to know.’ It is the most sinister and dangerous thing.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

I think that people’s sexual preferences are a legitimate subject for humour, dirty humour if at all possible.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‘evil.’ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

It’s a better tradition for people who think for themselves and who don’t pray in aid of any supernatural authority. That’s what you should be spending your life is in spreading and deepening that tradition.

There either is a god or there is not; there is a ‘design’ or not.

The pluralism of religion is attributable to the fact that man created God and not the other way around. If you accept the posture that man makes gods, there is no mystery in the proliferation of gods and religions that has always existed in human society. If.