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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.

Christopher Hitchens

The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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Anxiety Dangerous End Escape History Search Society
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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Islam Murder Radical Reaction World
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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Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
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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Determination Enough Fantasy Mad Offend Possible
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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Ability Authority Essential Oneself Religion
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Hate Myself Religion World
The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Disagreement Risk Sacrifice Title
Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Ideal Life Live Modeling Reality Risk Woman
To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Break Off Conversation Friendship Remember Sin
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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Agreement Man Religion Talk
Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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Astronomy End Philosophy Place Religion
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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Civilization Desire Ground Myself View
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Body Book Case Stay
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Coward Creation Religion Word
To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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Experience Faith Reach Yourself
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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