If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIn 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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She’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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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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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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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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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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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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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