How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued 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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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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