Take the risk of thinking for yourself.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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 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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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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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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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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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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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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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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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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Those who want to be offended don’t have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
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Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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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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