I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSMy 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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