Christopher Hitchens Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“The violence in the Bible is appalling.”

“Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'”

“I like surprises.”

“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.”

“The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.”

“The Islamists will try to spoil everything for everyone.”

“When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.”

“I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.”

“I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.”

“I'm afraid the SS's relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.”