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.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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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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I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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 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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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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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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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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