50 Best Christopher Hitchens Quotes That Everyone Should Read

Christopher Hitchens Quotes on Life

Read new perspectives about life through the following Christopher Hitchens quotes.

• “I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn’t had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “One can’t live without fear, it’s a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I’m afraid of a sordid death. I’m afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’” — Christopher Hitchens

• “If you’ve led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it’s precisely the cancer that you’d expect to get. That’s a bit of a yawn.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “If asked my opinion about virginity, I would say, “I’m opposed to it.” I don’t think it deserves to be celebrated, at any rate. Or at least, if I’m not opposed, I’m very highly skeptical and critical of it.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “I’d like to prove to other people that it’s not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.” — Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Top Quotes

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The top Christopher Hitchens quotes are here to inspire you.

• “If people I’ve never met or don’t know say that what I’ve written or done or said means anything to them, then I’m happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “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.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “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.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Picture all experts as if they were mammals.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Don’t be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “Suspect your own motives, and all excuses.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.” — Christopher Hitchens

• “To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” — Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Quotes Religion

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Let’s see the Christopher Hitchens quotes that talk about religion below.

• "Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite." —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 asks us to respect this, which it calls faith." —Christopher Hitchens

• "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." —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 not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral." —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

• "Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God." —Christopher Hitchens

• "In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion." —Christopher Hitchens

• "Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way." —Christopher Hitchens

• "Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong." —Christopher Hitchens

• "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." —Christopher Hitchens

• "The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee." —Christopher Hitchens

Best Christopher Hitchens Quotes

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Here are some Christopher Hitchens quotes you cannot miss.

• “That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the ‘transcendent’ and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “Atheism by itself is, of course, not a moral position or a political one of any kind; it simply is the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “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.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, open-mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.” – Christopher Hitchens

• “My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time.” – Christopher Hitchens

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