Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.
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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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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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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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Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
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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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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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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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No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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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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I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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