Christopher Hitchens Quotes

To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

I've got four dogs, eight chickens, 10 sheep and six pigs.

The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.

I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.

Mending the fence when one loses a sheep is still not too late.

The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.

It's all right to pull the cow out of the mud on Sunday, provided that you don't push him in on Saturday night.

The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.

When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

I have no faith in much organized religion because I think it's by a bunch of hypocrites and practiced by a bunch of hypocrites. They don't mean what they say because all of them are in the slave trade one way or the other.

The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.

I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.

The people of Halifax also invented the harmonium, a device for castrating pigs during Sunday service.

Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable.

I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.

Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children?

As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion.