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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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