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Things Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man…
- Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence.…
- In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want…
- I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is…
- The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
- I don't think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on…
- Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they…
- The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air…
- A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things,…
- In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and…
- Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary…
- Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are…
- People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
- He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly…
- Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after…
- Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.
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- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
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