Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

I am a daylight atheist.

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or a "non-alchemist." We do not have words for people who doubt that Elvis is still alive or that aliens have traversed the galaxy only to molest ranchers and their cattle. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs.

Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

It turns out that the word atheism means much less than I had thought. It is merely the lack of theism.

Atheism is the vice of a few intelligent people.

I believe that the best way to become an atheist is to read the bible

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.

I'm not a slave to a god that doesn't exist.

I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism, metempsychosis, or immortality.

People are always surprised when I say that I'm an atheist.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I know too much about religion to be religious, so to speak, and I am not that stupid, either.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife.

Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.

Atheism is the lack of belief in a god (or gods). It makes no claim. It merely rejects the claim that a god (or gods) exists. Nothing more.

I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles.

I rightly pass for an atheist.