The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSOf course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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