To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTo remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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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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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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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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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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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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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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