The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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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 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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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 essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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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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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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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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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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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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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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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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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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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