It's called faith because it's not knowledge.

- Christopher Hitchens

A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. It’s no…

- Christopher Hitchens

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women…

- Christopher Hitchens

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were con…

- Christopher Hitchens

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

- Christopher Hitchens

What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radical…

- Christopher Hitchens

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

- Christopher Hitchens

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…

- Christopher Hitchens

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

- Christopher Hitchens