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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether.
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I don’t have a body, I am a body.
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Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
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I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s.
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And the pleasures and rewards of the intellect are inseparable from angst, uncertainty, conflict and even despair.
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The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
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And yet, I wake up every day to a sensation of pervading disgust and annoyance. I probably ought to carry around some kind of thermometer or other instrument, to keep checking that I am not falling prey to premature curmudgeonhood.
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Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
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Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.
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With modern American dentistry it is simply amazing to see what transformation can be wrought in a single day.
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
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MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.
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I'm a member of no party. I have no ideology. I'm a rationalist. I do what I can in the international struggle between science and reason and the barbarism, superstition and stupidity that's all around us.
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This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.
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I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
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We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind.
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
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At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied.
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