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.
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.
More Christopher Hitchens Quotes
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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 easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God’s representative on earth.
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The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.
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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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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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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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The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.
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Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.
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To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off.
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What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
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Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony.
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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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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
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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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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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