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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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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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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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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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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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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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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 man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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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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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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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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