Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTo remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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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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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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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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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.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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