My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can’t prove it, but you can’t disprove it either.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSIt is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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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I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
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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 am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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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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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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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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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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Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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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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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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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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If the Qur’an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
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