Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI 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.
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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.
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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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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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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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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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Well, 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.’
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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.
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Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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