Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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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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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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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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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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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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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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I 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.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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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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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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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 noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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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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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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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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