The finest fury is the most controlled.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSYour favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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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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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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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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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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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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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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Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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