What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
Christopher HitchensI don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement.
Christopher HitchensWe know of no spectacle more ridiculousโor more contemptibleโthan that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.
Christopher HitchensHuman beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
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