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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI’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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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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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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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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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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