Christopher Hitchens Moral Quotations

No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.

Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as 'evil.' Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Don't swallow your moral code in tablet form.

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.