What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSMy own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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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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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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