Christopher Hitchens quotes - page 15

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker. (Christopher Hitchens)
Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. View quote
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I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much. View quote
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16. View quote
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The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model. View quote
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I haven't met anyone, in holy orders or out of it, who isn't also a primate. And neither have you. View quote
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Hitchens: "Oh, I don't know, I think if you're in favour of bombing a country, you might pay it the compliment of knowing where it is." View quote
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For all I know it does, it may, but that does not recommend it, to me, nor does it prove anything of its theology. View quote
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Of the genital mutilation community the same can be said. View quote
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The first False Issue one normally encounters is the claim that it has 'no real power'. View quote
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If it is a plan or a design, the planner must be either very capricious - really toying with his creation; and/or very clumsy, very tinkering and fantastically wasteful - throw away 99.9% of what you've made; or very cruel and very callous; or just perhaps very indifferent. (Christopher Hitchens)
If this was the plan - was it made by someone who likes us? View quote
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Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence. View quote
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An appreciation for irony. View quote
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Faith. Closely followed-in view of the overall shortage of time-by patience. View quote
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Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell. View quote
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For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one. View quote
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I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument. View quote
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When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best-which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo. View quote
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Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. View quote
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There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it. (Christopher Hitchens)
Until you have done something for humanity,” wrote the great American educator Horace Mann, "you should be ashamed to die. View quote
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A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful. View quote
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Hannity-"I am a believer. I believe in a creator." Hitchens-"And that's where it stops, or you think this creator cares about you too?" View quote
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I ask myself why do these worshipers of this God want to convict him of being such a crummy designer - most of his creations die off, the rest suffer miserably; of being cruel and capricious and bungling and incompetent and callous as a father? View quote
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