I became a journalist because I didn’t want to have to rely on the press for information… I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it’s useful to know what people think is the news.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.
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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 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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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
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I’m not afraid of being dead, that’s to say there’s nothing to be afraid of. I won’t know I’m dead, would be my strong conviction. And if I find that I’m alive in any way at all, that’ll be a pleasant surprise. I quite like surprises.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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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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The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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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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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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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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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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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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Even if I accepted that Jesus – like almost every other prophet on record – was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected.
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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.
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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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