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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.

Christopher Hitchens

I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Each Other Faith Leaving Myself
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Appearance Believe Myself Sound Talk Thinking
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Information Journalism Myself News People Thinking
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Earth Easy Establishment God Representation Way
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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Ability Authority Essential Oneself Religion
The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Definition Management Oneself Race
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Important Microscope Offering Thankful
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Ideal Life Live Modeling Reality Risk Woman
Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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Determination Enough Fantasy Mad Offend Possible
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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Available Important Quite Worth Yourself
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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Discover Escape God Greatness Oneself
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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Around Conscious Fake Philosophy Question Way
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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Congratulation Learning Mindset Myself Open Tolerance
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Enough Myself Selfish Thinking Touch
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Coward Creation Religion Word
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Existence High Principle
Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Risk Self Love Thinking Yourself
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Member Myself Party Science Struggle
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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Atheist Myself Organization Positive Religion Thinking
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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Politics Religious Secularism Simplicity Truth
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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Children Creation Goodness Hell Image Woman
I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Atheist Harmful Hold Maintain Myself Positive Religion Truth
To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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Cosmos Inspirational Question Return
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Conclusion Religion Right Wrong
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person

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