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I vote and I do jury duty.

Christopher Hitchens

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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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In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.
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Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.
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The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.
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The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
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The noble title of dissident must be earned rather than claimed it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.
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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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I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.
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To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.
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Name one moral action performed by a believer that could not have been done by a nonbeliever.
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Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.
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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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It's normally agreed that the question 'How are you?' doesn't put you on your oath to give a full or honest answer.
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I appear as a skeptic, who believes that doubt is the great engine, the great fuel of all inquiry, all discovery and all innovation.
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The trade-off between freedom and security, so often proposed so seductively, very often leads to the loss of both.
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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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If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
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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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Here’s someone who says there’s no such thing, it’s all intelligent design. How sure am I of my own views? Don’t take refuge in the false security of consensus, and the feeling that whatever you think you’re bound to be okay, because you’re in the safely moral majority.
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Religion looks forward to the destruction of the world.... Perhaps half aware that its unsupported arguments are not entirely persuasive, and perhaps uneasy about its own greedy accumulation of temporal power and wealth, religion has never ceased to proclaim the Apocalypse and the day of judgment.
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I leave it to the faithful to burn each other's churches and mosques and synagogues, which they can be always relied upon to do
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