What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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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 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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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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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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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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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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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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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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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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