Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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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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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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