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 HITCHENSTime spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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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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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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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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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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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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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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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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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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