Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSEndless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it’s good enough for me.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSWhat do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTake the risk of thinking for yourself.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI’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 HITCHENSThe one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSReligion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSShe’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIslamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSHigh moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTo ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSTo terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe finest fury is the most controlled.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI 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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSThe noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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