I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSOne of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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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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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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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 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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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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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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
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