Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSSince it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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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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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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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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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 sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody – not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms – had the smallest idea what was going on.
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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