What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSReligion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has—from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.
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There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.
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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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Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, ‘Well, good on you. See you there.’
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Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if there was one. You would never be able to escape.
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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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