I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised. - Christopher Hitchens 1 Share Now -
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. - Christopher Hitchens 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. - Christopher Hitchens 6 Share Now -
'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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. - Christopher Hitchens 10 Share Now -
