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“Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state?”

Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was an English-American author, journalist, and social critic. He was known for his sharp wit and controversial views, particularly on religion and politics. Hitchens was a prominent figure in the public discourse of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. more

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Book:Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

Source: Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“Islam makes very large claims for itself. In its art, there is a prejudice against representing the human form at all. The prohibition on picturing the prophet - who was only another male mammal - is apparently absolute. So is the prohibition on pork or alcohol or, in some Muslim societies, music or dancing. Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these. But if he claims the right to make me abstain as well, he offers the clearest possible warning and proof of an aggressive intent.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Religion is man-made. Even the men who made it cannot agree on what their prophets or redeemers or gurus actually said or did.”

Men Made Said He Man Agree Made It Prophet Guru Redeemer God Is Not Great

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“Europeans think Americans are fat, vulgar, greedy, stupid, ambitious and ignorant and so on. And they've taken as their own, as their representative American someone who actually embodies all of those qualities.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.”

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Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.”

People Knows Mind Dying Normal Approach Polite This Society Changing Your Mind Unbelievers Perfectly Normal

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea.”

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Book:Letters to a Young Contrarian

Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian

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“Reagan is doing to the country what he can no longer do to his wife.”

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens