I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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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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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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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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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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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 governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
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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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