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Been Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day.
- How do I know that I know this, except that I've always been taught this and never heard anything else? How sure am I of…
- Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.
- Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.
- Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us…
- What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,
- My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends,
- I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that…
- Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done…
- We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze…
- Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
- In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often…
- I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I…
- Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.
- The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to…
- In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to…
- I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.
- I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
- There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are,…
- One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
- Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this…
- I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like…
- There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a…
- The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
- Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather…
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