It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWhat can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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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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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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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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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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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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