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Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.
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 don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.
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If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.
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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 is not the belief there is a god. Religion is the belief god tells you what to do.
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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 have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.
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Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self a celestial North Korea.
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I don’t have a body, I am a body.
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Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.
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Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.
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All of life is a wager
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Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.
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I vote and I do jury duty.
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Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing
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Religion, it is true, still possesses the huge if cumbersome and unwieldy advantage of having come first.
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I would say that if you don't believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ and Messiah, and that he rose again from the dead and by his sacrifice our sins are forgiven, you're really not in any meaningful sense a Christian.
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Take the risk of thinking for yourself
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I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.
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Many more people are poor and sick because of the life of MT: Even more will be poor and sick if her example is followed. She was a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud, and a church that officially protects those who violate the innocent has given us another clear sign of where it truly stands on moral and ethical questions.
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