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  1. 1451 quotes from Christopher Hitchens: 'Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god.

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    • Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch.
    • Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
    • What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens. Inspirational, Wisdom, Atheist.
    • A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie to children. Christopher Hitchens.
  2. Dec 15, 2011 · Enjoy the best Christopher Hitchens Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Christopher Hitchens, American Author, Born April 13, 1949. Share with your friends.

    • The Writer and Speaker
    • The Traveler and His Vices
    • The Antitheist
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    He began his journalistic career as a correspondent for International Socialism while in Oxford. After graduating from Oxford, he continued his career as a correspondent by specializing in social sciences at The Times Higher Education Supplement, and later joined ITV’s Weekend World as a researcher. At 21, he left for the United States and made a f...

    Hitchens travelled widely as a young man, mostly at his own expense. He travelled in the most surprising countries during his time, sometimes at the risk of arrest or physical attack, as he visited Czechoslovakia and Argentina during their anti-totalitarian struggles and Iran at the time when Saddam Hussein was being hunted by the United States gov...

    You would expect that such a person raised in a Christian home and educated in a Christian boarding school will be profound in Christian faith. But it was said that even at an early age, he declined participating in communal worship. He dubbed himself as an antitheist, a word relating to someone who has no notion of a god. He wrote vigorous opinion...

    Hitchens wanted to be called Christopher throughout his life, as was his mother’s wishes. He adored his mother, and grieved over her death – a suicide. He described it as a “howling, lacerating moment in [his] life.” Hitchens’ first marriage was with a Greek woman named Eleni Meleagrou who bore him two children, Alexander and Sophia. In 1991, he wa...

  3. Dec 16, 2011 · ABC News' Peter Madden reports: British American essayist and avowed atheist Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday, Dec. 15, at age 62, and he saw it coming.

  4. Christopher Hitchens. The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it's called the empowerment of women. Beware of solipsism. Don't ever think you are the centre of the world. Be very careful of assuming that you are the object of a divine design. That there's something special just about being you.

  5. Browse 191 sourced quotes by the late journalist and author Christopher Hitchens on topics such as religion, god, literature, and life. Find his witty, provocative, and controversial views on various issues and topics.