Christopher Hitchens quotes - page 7

A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed. (Christopher Hitchens)
What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime. View quote
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There can be no progress without head-on confrontation. View quote
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The most educated person in the world now has to admit-- I shall not say confess-- that he or she knows less and less but at least knows less and less about more and more. View quote
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Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like. View quote
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I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. View quote
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You can't have occupation and human rights. View quote
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The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate. View quote
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Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery. View quote
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic. View quote
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[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. (Christopher Hitchens)
Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. View quote
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[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. View quote
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Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate. View quote
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Cheap booze is a false economy. View quote
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It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory. View quote
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it is interesting to find that people of faith now seek defensively to say that they are no worse than fascists or Nazis or Stalinists. View quote
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The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that ‘if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me'. View quote
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. View quote
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Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. View quote
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I'll give you all the miracles and you'll still be left exactly where you are now, holding an empty sack. (Christopher Hitchens)
Emancipate yourself from the idea of a celestial dictatorship and you've taken the first step to becoming free. View quote
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Is there anything that is forbidden to anybody who says they have God on their side? View quote
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Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. View quote
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How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell. View quote
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