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Us Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- 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.…
- Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be…
- [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would…
- 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.…
- Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us…
- Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.
- [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq…
- I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
- There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are,…
- Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and…
- Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand…
- Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time…
- Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and…
- We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He…
- So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more…
- 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…
- God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion…
- I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass…
- I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish…
- Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other…
- There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong