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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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The finest fury is the most controlled.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other’s churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do.
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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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I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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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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Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
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In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.
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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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I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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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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Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.
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Today I want to puke when I hear the word ‘radical’ applied so slothfully and stupidly to Islamist murderers; the most plainly reactionary people in the world.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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The true essence of a dictatorship is in fact not its regularity but its unpredictability and caprice; those who live under it must never be able to relax, must never be quite sure if they have followed the rules correctly or not.
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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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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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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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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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