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Christopher Hitchens Inspirational Quotes (323)

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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 to children. It’s not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people and tell them that if they only would believe nonsense, they can be saved. It’s immoral.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self a celestial North Korea.
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If you can charm everyone it means you don't care about anyone in particular.
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One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.
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In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.
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It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.
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One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
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You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?
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The atheist proposition is the following - most of the time - it may not be said that there is no god it may be said that there is no reason to think that there is one.
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What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state.
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The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.
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It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
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It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
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The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.
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Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.
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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 them.
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The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more.
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Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.
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I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.
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I am absolutely convinced that religion is the main source of hatred in this world.
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Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
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I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
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I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.
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I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.
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