The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWhat is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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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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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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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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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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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.
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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 Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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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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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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