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Trying Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me.
- Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it…
- 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…
- Those who want to be offended don't have the right to try and close down the newspaper that offends them.
- Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work,…
- We know of no spectacle more ridiculous—or more contemptible—than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who…
- I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others,…
- Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an…
- Plainly, this unwillingness to give ground even on unimportant disagreements is the symptom of some deepseated insecurity, as was my one-time fondness for making teasing…
- In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
- A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold