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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIt’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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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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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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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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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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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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No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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To the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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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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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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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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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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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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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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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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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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Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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