Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIf the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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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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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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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 the dumb question, ‘Why me?’ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‘Why not?’
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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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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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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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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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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it’s a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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