Christopher Hitchens

[T]his is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#jihad #september- #life

I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#delusions #fantasy #illusions #religion #religion

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #atheism

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#free-inquiry #free-speech #irony #intelligence

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#religion #death

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #god #noremorse #science #religion

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#pornography #sarah-palin #sex-appeal #imagination

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

— Christopher Hitchens

#justification #lies #torture #torture

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

#death #faith #life #patience #religion

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#individualism #libertarianism #objectivism #selfishness #selfishness