The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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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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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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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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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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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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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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