Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Intellectually, now, I believe that it is a complete vanity to say positively there is no God.

Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

What people are really after is, what is my stance on religion or spirituality or God? And I would say, if I find a word that came closest, it would be agnostic.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

I am surprised that anyone can profess to be an atheist.

Religion cannot and should not be replaced by atheism. Religion needs to go away and not be replaced by anything. Atheism is not a religion. It's the absence of religion, and that's a wonderful thing.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.

When men stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

I don't believe in God.

Atheism is the last word of theism.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

I'm an atheist.

I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.