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Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.
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 was taught very early on that the state can be, and is, a liar and a murderer.
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Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.
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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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The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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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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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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No moral person would do such a thing unless they thought it was divinely warranted.
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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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I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.
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Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.
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Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
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The role of dissident is not, and should not be, a claim of membership in a communion of saints. In other words, the more fallible the mammal, the truer the example.
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If you say the economy, you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.
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I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge.
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What a country, and what a culture, when the liberals cry before they are hurt, and the reactionaries pose as brave nonconformists, while the radicals make a fetish of their own jokey irrelevance.
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