My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSOne must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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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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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.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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