Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for 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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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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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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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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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