Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Animal, Patterns, Conspiracy

  "God's Still Dead" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 20, 2007.

• Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Believe, Animal

  "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Holier Than Thou)". TV Series, May 23, 2005.

• I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Animal, Giving

  "The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2007.

• Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated than our own and that blindness, often caused by microscopic parasites that are themselves miracles of ingenuity, is one of the oldest and most tragic disorders known to man. And why award the superior eye (or in the case of cat or bat, also the ear) to the inferior species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Powerful, Cat, Eye

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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