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Christopher Hitchens Quotes
(British Journalist)

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"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."

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"A true believer... must also claim to have at least an inkling of what that Supreme Being desires. I have been called arrogant in my time... but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator — that’s beyond my conceit."

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"Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint."

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"Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated."

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"My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. It happens to be my view, but it doesn't challenge any of the findings of Darwin or Huxley or Einstein or Hawking."

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"The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths."

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"Why, if God was the creator of all things, were we supposed to "praise" him for what came naturally?"

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"If Jesus could heal a blind person he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?"

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"I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends."

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"Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did."

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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. It may be a long farewell, but it has begun and, like all farewells, should not be protracted."

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"Islam is at once the most and the least interesting of the world's monotheisms. It builds upon its primitive Jewish and Christian predecessors, selecting a chunk here and a shard there, and thus if these fall, it partly falls also."

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"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."

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"Religion has run out of justifications."

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"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins and astrology ends, and astronomy begins."

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"Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer."

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http://www.godless-quotes.org/author/Christopher_Hitchens


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