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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

Christopher Hitchens

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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Election Oneself People Run Time
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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Discover Inspirational Live Religion World
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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Offend Right
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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Mindset People Rejection Thinking Time
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Belief God Religion Yourself
Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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Risk Self Love Thinking Yourself
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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Form Love Myself Reason Respect Sex Sexuality
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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Allow Children Different Quite Reason Religious World
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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Congratulation Learning Mindset Myself Open Tolerance
Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Burn Candle End Light Love Myself
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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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

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