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.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI 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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.
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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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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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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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The gods that we’ve made are exactly the gods you’d expect to be made by a species that’s about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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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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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?
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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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