Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Christopher HitchensThe thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.
Christopher HitchensReligion attacks us in our deepest integrity by saying we wouldn't be able to make a moral decision without it.
Christopher HitchensThe faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
Christopher HitchensWe know how to think. We know how to laugh. We know we're going to die, which gives us a lot to think about, and we have a need for, what I would call, "the transcendent" or "the numinous" or even "the ecstatic" that comes out in love and music, poetry, and landscape. I wouldn't trust anyone who didn't respond to things of that sort.
Christopher Hitchens