I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENSI 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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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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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
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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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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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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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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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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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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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The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
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It’s called faith because it’s not knowledge.
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What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
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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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If you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don’t think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Taliban is as bad.
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