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Christopher Hitchens
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will thi...
“We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is co...
“I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe i...
“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to ...
“God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
“What is it you most dislike?Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anyth...
“The quality you most admire in a man?Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sens...
“If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
“What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.”
“How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape....
“I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind o...
“Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.”
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. ...
“Who are your favorite heroines in real life?The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their bea...
“We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let ...