The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSNever 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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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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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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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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