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Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens
American Author
Born: Apr 13, 1949
Died: Dec 15, 2011
Good Life Me People Think You
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. Christopher Hitchens
God Food You Cats Water Will Affection Think Draw Conclusion Shelter Dogs Provide Owners Whereas Them Realize Noticed Compelled
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. Christopher Hitchens
People Tolerance Intolerant Most Learned Narrow-Minded Very Often Themselves Congratulate Who
My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either. Christopher Hitchens
You Superior Own Asylum My Own Civilisation Colony Prove Undesirable Dumping Get Unfit Either Planet View Used Ground Rid Disprove Lunatic
There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument. Christopher Hitchens
Me People Argument Stupid Kinds Lazy Annoy Most Annoys Stupid People
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens
Faith Experience Doubt Out Throw Over Reach Dogma Choose Vintage
To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?' Christopher Hitchens
Me Cosmos Bothers Return Dumb Question Reply Barely Why Why Not
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake. Christopher Hitchens
Faith You Trust Mistake Someone Putting Friend Same Anyone
The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy - the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. Christopher Hitchens
Me Enemy Control Inside Totalitarian Absolute Head Over Just Wants Taxes Your Actions
Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. Christopher Hitchens
Faith Health Religion History Healing Care First Sense Universe Our Philosophy Cosmology Attempt Part Also Health Care Making Cultural Intellectual Texts Human Where Literature Believing
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. Christopher Hitchens
Time Light Denial Way Finding Some One-Way Gives Both Suppose Knowingly Been Often Candle Ends Burning Lovely
Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. Christopher Hitchens
God Argument Say Evidence More Only Well Than Any Afterlife Persuasive
To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? Christopher Hitchens
Good Women World Creation Hell Consider Terrify Inferior Children Image
Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt. Christopher Hitchens
God You People Doubt Way Worse Say Put Beyond Well Makes Proved Behave Certainly Belief
Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of 'like' has spread through the idiom of the young. And it's true that in some cases the term has become simultaneously a crutch and a tic, driving out the rest of the vocabulary as candy expels vegetables. Christopher Hitchens
Vegetables Rest Parents Become Young Way Out Distraction Some Vocabulary Cases Point Through Driving True Simultaneously Term Like Crutch Idiom Spread Candy Irritated Teachers Many Growth
When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children. Christopher Hitchens
Our About Mortality Talk Talking Children
A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me. Christopher Hitchens
Me You Rude Gentleman Believe Honestly Purpose Except Never Nasty Sober
I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. Christopher Hitchens
You Atheist Think Something Being
I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn't ever have to rely on the press for my information. Christopher Hitchens
Journalist Press Rely Partly Became Information Ever
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. Christopher Hitchens
Faith Science Noise People Made White Research Believe Some About Percent Puts Perhaps Talk Always Been Cannot Us Who Cognitive
I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators. Christopher Hitchens
Thought Power Wish Remove Those Term Dictators American Us Should Used Useful Who
Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments. Christopher Hitchens
Religion Argument New Come Up Any Going
I felt Clinton represented the worst of the 1960s. Christopher Hitchens
Worst Felt Clinton
The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up. Christopher Hitchens
Loneliness Me Bucks Concept Continually Exile Self-Sufficiency Up
The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. Christopher Hitchens
Work Generation Progress Amazing Fact Document Tested America Each Each Generation Founded
High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments. Christopher Hitchens
Great Character High Moral Moral Character Accomplishments
When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. Christopher Hitchens
Wish Back Way Some More Only Small Look Proud Left Did Done Quite
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