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Would Be Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
- To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as…
- Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries .
- The discovery there is no god is a great relief, because if there were, it would be like living in a celestial North Korea if…
- I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
- I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a…
- Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this…
- Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it…
- If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what…
- Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius