To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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