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Persons Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.
- There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person’s propensity to be impressed by the measurement…
- No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
- It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that…
- Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
- If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at…
- Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite…
- 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…
- An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence
- The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but…
- The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
- Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some…
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