Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSShe’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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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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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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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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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 don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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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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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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