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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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Portsmouth
England
Christopher Eric Hitchens
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I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
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Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.
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Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.
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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
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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 enough.
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We have lived in a world where the discoveries of physics and genetics are far more awe-inspiring, as well as infinitely more liberating, than the claims of any religion.
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Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.
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Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
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I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
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An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.
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Virtue and merit can become their opposites if they are exacted or compelled.
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Ordinary morality is innate in my view.
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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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There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.
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Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
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Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
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I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
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We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we ­persist in self-­centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.
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I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.
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