All religions take care to silence or to execute those who question them, and I choose to regard this recurrent tendency as a sign of their weakness rather than their strength. (Page: 45)
The poor continue to finance the rich, just as if the glittering temples and palaces of Las Vegas had been built by the money of those who won rather than those who lost. (Page: 67)
He (Dr. Martin Luther King) was a mammal like the rest of us, and probably plagiarized his doctoral dissertation, and had a notorious fondness for booze and for women a good deal younger than his wife......a high moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. (Page: 78)
The argument that religious belief improves people, or that it helps to civilize society, is one that people tend to bring up when they have exhausted the rest of their case. (Page: 89)
"Make me one with everything", so goes the Buddhist's humble request to the hot-dog vendor. But when the Buddhist hands over a twenty-dollar bill to the vendor, in return for his slathered bun, he waits a long time for his change. Finally asking for it, he is informed that "change comes only from within". (Page: 91)
("God is not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything" by Christopher Eric Hitchens. He is an English-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career span more than four decades. He has voted as the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.