Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• 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.

• If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Religion, Degrees

• Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Opposites, Merit, Virtue

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.139, Basic Books

• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

• Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Views, Virtue

• Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Appreciation, Irony, Virtue

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.252, Hachette UK

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