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Them Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.
- 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.…
- 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…
- In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a…
- 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…
- Margaret Thatcher has shown that there is power and dignity to be won by defying the status quo and the majority rather than by adapting…
- We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided…
- 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…
- Shepherds don't look after sheep because they love them - although I do think some shepherds like their sheep too much. They look after their…
- 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…
- Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
- Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God.…
- For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
- 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…
- 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…
- The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict…
- And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I…
- 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…
- I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle