I’m a member of no party. I have no ideology. I’m a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that’s all around us.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSShe’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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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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It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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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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I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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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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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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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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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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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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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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