What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWhat do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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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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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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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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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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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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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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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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