Christopher Hitchens Quotes - Page 5

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• The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Humility, Divine, Claims

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.19, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Religion makes kind people say unkind things: "I must prove my faith, so mutilate the genitals of my children." They wouldn't do that if God didn't tell them to do so.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, People, Kind

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Atheism, Cognitive Dissonance

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

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• Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Atheism, Christianity

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I became a journalist because I didn't want to have to rely on the press for information... I only read it to make sure of whatever everyone else thinks is going on, because it's useful to know what people think is the news.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, People, News

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• Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

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  Time, Faithful, Arguing

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.65, Basic Books

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• The faithful believe that certain truths have been 'revealed.' The skeptics and secularists believe that truth is only to be sought by free inquiry and trial and error. Only one of those positions is dogmatic.

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  Believe, Errors, Faithful

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• Of course we have free will because we have no choice but to have it.

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  Choices, Free Will, Courses

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• In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans are the same everywhere and that the degree of variation between members of our species is very slight. This is of course an encouraging finding; it helps arm you against news programs back home that show seething or abject masses of either fanatical or torpid people. In another way it is a depressing finding; the sorts of things that make people quarrel and make them stupid are the same everywhere.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Depressing, Stupid, Home

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• What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Racism

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• Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Jesus, Real, Heaven

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Order, Holocaust

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• The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Prayer, Men, Thinking

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished belief only with regret. To this I reply: who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime, and who regarded us as its private property even after we died? How happy we ought to be, at the reflection that there exists not a shred of respectable evidence to support such a horrible hypothesis.

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  Atheist, Regret, Reflection

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• My own opinion is enough for me. And I claim the right to defend it against any consensus, any majority anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Kissing, Numbers, Lines

  "Charlie Hebdo, Hate Speech and Christopher Hitchens" by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. January 14, 2015.

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• Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Father, Son

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Art, Dancing, Alcohol

  "Cartoon Debate: The case for mocking religion". www.slate.com. February 04, 2006.

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• The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly that he wants to be anointed as defender of all faiths—another indication of the amazing conceit he has developed in six decades of performing the only job allowed him by the hereditary principle: that of waiting for his mother to expire.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mother, Atheist, Kings

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

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• The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Unforgivable Sin, Sin, Boring

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• What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Inspiring, Friends, Existence

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• I think that there is no supernatural dimension. The natural world is quite wonderful enough. The more we know about it, the much more wonderful it is than any supernatural proposition.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Dimensions, World

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen.

  Christopher Hitchens

  May, Spinoza, Woody

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.59, Basic Books

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Song, Atheist

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

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• Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

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  Essentials, Way, Morality

  "Moore’s Law" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 27, 2003.

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• There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Progress, Argument, Confrontation

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.151, Atlantic Books Ltd

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