No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWell, 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.’
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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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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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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