Christopher Hitchens Quotes - Page 7

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• No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Philosophy, School, May

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• Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would think-though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one-that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.

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  Children, Thinking, Order

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To reflect upon the event horizon is a great deal more awe-inspiring than a burning bush or a wooden statue that weeps or pees or bleeds.

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  Religion, Events, Horizon

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• Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of.

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  Fear, Dying, Waste

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• The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

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  Teaching, Taken, Enemy

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• I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it comes to the confrontation with Islamic Jihadism.

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  Islamic, Issues, Voters

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So there's nothing more vulgar than the sound of someone saying, God Bless America, someone who doesn't really believe it, but he thinks it will make him look good to other people. I think it's the most nauseating spectacle.

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  Believe, Thinking, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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  Sex, Lgbt, Gay Pride

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• By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

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  Trying, Desert, Kind

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of "little guy" or "silent majority" rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.

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  Personality, Guy, Majority

  Christopher Hitchens (2014). “For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports”, p.271, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If I was told to sacrifice something to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said 'Yes I'll gut my kid to show my love of God.'

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  Kids, Sacrifice, Men

  "Thank you, Mr. Hitchens" by Raheem Kassam, www.thecommentator.com. December 16, 2011.

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• The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.

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  Kings, Rights, Drs

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House

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• The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

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  Ideas, Suffering, Prince Of Peace

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

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  Book, Expression, Idols

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• A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.

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  Atheist, Children, Believe

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• To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

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  Break Off, Remember, Sin

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

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  Men, Criticism, Made

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

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  Mean, Innovation, Doubt

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• The finest fury is the most controlled.

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  Finest, Fury, Controlled

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

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  Stupid, People, Lazy

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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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  Religion, Firsts, Advantage

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.71, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

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  Travel, Book, Reading

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.105, Basic Books

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• When I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually want my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick.

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  Strong, Successful, Names

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.307, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• You can only have one aim per debate.

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  Debate, Aim

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.107, Melville House

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• In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

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  Bags, Restaurants, Asks

  Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.375, Nation Books

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