It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. -Christopher Hitchens Christmas
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. -Christopher Hitchens Religion
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. -Christopher Hitchens Health
The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition. -Christopher Hitchens Hope
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. -Christopher Hitchens History
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them. -Christopher Hitchens Relationship
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. -Christopher Hitchens Trust
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. -Christopher Hitchens Home
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. -Christopher Hitchens History
If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it's a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women. -Christopher Hitchens Society
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 Food
One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. -Christopher Hitchens Great
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 Faith
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. -Christopher Hitchens Travel
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 God
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. -Christopher Hitchens Politics
'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. -Christopher Hitchens Age
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 Faith
