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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She’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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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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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things… one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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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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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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I’m an atheist. I’m not neutral about religion, I’m hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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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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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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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 easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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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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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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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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