Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

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.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

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

Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

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

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.