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The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens
Age: 62 †
Born: 1949
Born: April 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 15
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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
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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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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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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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The beauty of science hugely outranks the charms of superstition.
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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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If people I've never met or don't know say that what I've written or done or said means anything to them, then I'm happy to take it at face value, for once. It cheers me up.
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Religion is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred and contempt, and I claim that right.
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Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
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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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Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.
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A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.
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The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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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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