Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Motivational, Song, Atheist

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.480, Da Capo Press

• We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Men

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

• How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

  Christopher Hitchens

  United States, Earth, Conservative

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.192, Atlantic Books Ltd

• As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Lying, Ocean, Alive

• 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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Fighting, Scum Of The Earth

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5064, NYU Press

• I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, September 11, Earth

• The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religion, Earth, Way

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