Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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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’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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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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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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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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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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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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I’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.
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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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