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My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics. — Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology. — Christopher Hitchens

My hope is that literature can replace religion as the source of our ethics, without ceasing to be a pleasurable study and pursuit in its own right — Christopher Hitchens

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

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world? — Christopher Hitchens

The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. — Christopher Hitchens

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right. — Christopher Hitchens

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion poisons everything. — Christopher Hitchens

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization. — Christopher Hitchens

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth. — Christopher Hitchens

There either is a god or there is not; there is a 'design' or not. — Christopher Hitchens

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence. — Christopher Hitchens

Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed - in view of the overall shortage of time - by patience. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it. — Christopher Hitchens

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world. — Christopher Hitchens

To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds. — Christopher Hitchens

Montaigne: Religion's surest foundation is the contempt for life. — Christopher Hitchens

Virtuous behavior by a believer is no proof at all of - indeed is not even an argument for - the truth of his belief. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. — Christopher Hitchens

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open book. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. — Christopher Hitchens

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made. — Christopher Hitchens

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

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted. — Christopher Hitchens

Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell. — Christopher Hitchens

No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant. — Christopher Hitchens

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion. — Christopher Hitchens

There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses — Christopher Hitchens

Religion fosters servility and solipsism. — Christopher Hitchens

It is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists — Christopher Hitchens

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties. — 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

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

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. — Christopher Hitchens

Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important. — Christopher Hitchens

If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do. — Christopher Hitchens

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred. — Christopher Hitchens

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

Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first. — Christopher Hitchens

You have to choose your future regrets. — Christopher Hitchens