Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Selfish

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Purpose, Morality, Stolen

• History is a tragegy, not a morality tale.

  Christopher Hitchens

  History, Morality, Tales

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Morality

• One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, Issues, Way

• The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold is durable, gold is rare, gold is even (in certain very peculiar circumstances) convertible. To believe in thrift, solidity and soundness is to believe in some way in the properties of gold.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Money, Believe, Gold

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Essentials, Way, Morality

  "Moore’s Law" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 27, 2003.

• Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Views, Ordinary, Ethics

• Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, United States, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (1994). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.220, Verso

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