Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTime spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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There is no such thing as closure, and it wouldn’t be worth having if it were available, because all it would mean is that something that was quite an important part of you had gone numb.
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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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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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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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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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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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