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Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

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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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Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.
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Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.
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It was not for the sake of oil that the risky decision to cease this corrupt coexistence was made. But at least now the Iraqi people have a chance of controlling their own main resource, and it will be our task to ensure that the funding and revenue are transparent instead of opaque.
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If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
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I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
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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'm quite convinced in my own mind that those who were arguing that [the need to intervene in Iraq] was a more immediate one than some believed - were I'm sure convinced that they were right on fact, I don't think they were making it up. So as to lying, I don't think it has been established that any lies were told.
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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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I say that homosexuality is not just a form of sex, it's a form of love, and it deserves our respect for that reason.
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I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.
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The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity
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I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.
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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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I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful.
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You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.
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Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.
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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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Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.
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I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
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