I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me.
Christopher HitchensOne of the most repellent spectacles at election times is the pretense of piety on the part of people running for office.
Christopher HitchensI personally want to "do" death in the active and not the passive, and to be there to look it in the eye and be doing something when it comes for me.
Christopher HitchensTo describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness.
Christopher HitchensAtheists have always argued that this world is all that we have, and that our duty is to one another to make the very most and best of it.
Christopher HitchensI learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
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.
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