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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Christopher Hitchens

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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Humor Possible Thinking Tragedy
Islamophobia: a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.
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Coward Creation Religion Word
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Character Condition Moral
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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Agreement Man Religion Talk
Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Argument Enough Faith Time Wasted Time
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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Mindset People Rejection Thinking Time
Religion makes kind people say unkind things: “I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children.” They wouldn’t do that if God didn’t tell them to do so.
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Children Cruelty Kind Myself People Religion
My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
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Attitude Enough Myself Opinion Place Time Validation
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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Children Feminism Reproduction Rise Woman
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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Human Pattern Seek Theory Willing
I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Hate Myself Religion World
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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Certain Divine Infant Ourselves Person
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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Death People Prayer See Yourself
Since it is obviously inconceivable that all religions can be right, the most reasonable conclusion is that they are all wrong.
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Conclusion Religion Right Wrong
It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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Faith Knowledge Wisdom
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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Offend Right
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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Islam Murder Radical Reaction World
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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Ability Authority Essential Oneself Religion
Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, religion no longer offers an explanation for anything important.
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Important Microscope Offering Thankful
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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Image Pathetic Religion
The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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Earth Easy Establishment God Representation Way
Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Belief God Religion Yourself
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.
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Member Myself Party Science Struggle
The 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.
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Enough Goodness Government Myself Religion
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language – always the language – was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.
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Key Language Learning Magic Myself Poetry
Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.
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Country Himself Wife
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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Enough Life Live Time

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