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Life Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Gullibility and credulity are considered undesireable qualities in every department of human life - except religion ... Why are we praised by godly men for…
- MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God.…
- 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…
- Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all…
- Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed.…
- 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…
- Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by…
- My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's…
- For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
- I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
- 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…
- 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…
- I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
- Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended…
- All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a…
- My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race'…
- [I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens…
- Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not hold…
- It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A…
- Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject…
- In our time, the symbol of state intrusion into the private life is the mandatory urine test.
- At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as…
- The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not…
- If you want to stay in for the long haul, and lead a life that is free from illusions either propagated by you or embraced…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle