Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI’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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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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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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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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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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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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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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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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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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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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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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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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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