I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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 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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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The faithful believe that certain truths have been ‘revealed.’ The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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In 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.
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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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So there’s nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn’t really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it’s the most nauseating spectacle.
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