Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

No one may do evil that good may come.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Eschew all unrighteousness; that is, slaying of kinsmen, and murder, and perjury, and witchcraft and enchantment, and adultery, and incest

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

I'm trying to lead a good Christian life, so there ain't too much spicy to tell about me.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.