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.’
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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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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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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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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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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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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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