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Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
- The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
- The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.
- The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
- The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.
- The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
- There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.
- There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise.
- To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
- To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
- Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
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