Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.
Christopher HitchensI'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.
Christopher HitchensTake the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
Christopher HitchensFriends call me Hitch. Maybe it can be turned into a 900-phone number. People would pay to talk to me.
Christopher HitchensMT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
Christopher Hitchens