Christopher Hitchens Messages

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.

Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

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

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.

We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.