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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIslamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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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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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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 true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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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 want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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