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 HitchensThe offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that canโt give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I donโt know anything like enough yet; that I havenโt understood enough; that I canโt know enough; that Iโm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldnโt have it any other way.
Christopher HitchensWe live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
Christopher HitchensPakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
Christopher HitchensLet me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way โ because itโs had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But youโve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side.
Christopher Hitchens