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Children Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
- Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though…
- If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
- I can't find the compulsory mutilation of the genitals of children a subject for humor... It's designed to repress sexual pleasure... The full excision, not…
- A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe…
- A virgin can conceive. A dead body can walk again. Your leprosy can be cured. The blind can see. Nonsense. It’s not moral to lie…
- No child's behind left.
- It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play…
- One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you…
- 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…
- Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.
- I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my…
- My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of…
- Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:…
- Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms…
- When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon