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“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”

Christopher Hitchens book Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

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

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.”

Christopher Hitchens

“An appreciation for irony.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006

“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”

Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'…”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”

Christopher Hitchens

Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything