Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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She’s got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.
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One of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
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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 don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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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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The noble title of “dissident” must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.
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Those who are determined to be ‘offended’ will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
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Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.
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I’m not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
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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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Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
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