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30 Christopher Hitchens Quotes & Sayings
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30 Christopher Hitchens Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 13 April 1949. Died: 15 December 2011 |
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Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.
Christopher Hitchens
Terrorism
The tactic
Demanding
The impossible
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Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.
Christopher Hitchens
Chemotherapy
Feel bad
Feeling now
Good thing
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I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.
Christopher Hitchens
It's possible
To have
A sense
Tragedy
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Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.
Christopher Hitchens
Million
People die
Every day
Go sometimes
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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
No god
No afterlife
Persuasive evidence
Argument
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Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonizing death, but then be reborn to have an agonizing and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.
Christopher Hitchens
The people
Who pray
Agonizing death
Be reborn
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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
Religion
Human
Make up
Our cultural
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I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
Christopher Hitchens
Sometimes wish
Suffering
Good cause
Risking
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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher Hitchens
My father
Had died
Very swiftly
Of cancer
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High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
Christopher Hitchens
Moral character
A precondition
Great moral
Accomplishments
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One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher Hitchens
Great questions
Philosophy
Have morality
Celestial dictation
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Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
Christopher Hitchens
Trust
As faith
A friend
Someone
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To terrify children with the image of hell,to consider women an inferior creation,Is that good for the world?
Christopher Hitchens
Terrify children
The image
Hell
Consider women
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Christopher Hitchens
Had some
Dark nights
Giving in
Depression
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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
I learned
Most intolerant
Narrow minded
People
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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
The totalitarian
The enemy
That's absolute
Wants control
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Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.
Christopher Hitchens
Many people
Come through
Esophageal cancer
Live
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I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.
Christopher Hitchens
Don't think
Souls
Bodies
Be changed
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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
Belief
In God
Makes people
Behave worse
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Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centered and even solipsistic.
Christopher Hitchens
Cancer
Victim hood
Permanent temptation
Self centered
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For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.
Christopher Hitchens
The people
Ostensibly wish
Are worried
Immortal soul
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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
Christopher Hitchens
Love it
Muslims
To war
Christian do
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Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.
Christopher Hitchens
Solidarity
An attitude
Resistance
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The violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher Hitchens
The violence
The bible
Appalling
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I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher Hitchens
Make preparation
To live
Die
Every day
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Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and since there is no other metaphor,also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens
Literature
Not scripture
Sustains
The mind
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I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicized.
Christopher Hitchens
Don't envy
Much respect
People
Completely politicized
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I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.
Christopher Hitchens
I have
My time
Woken up
Feeling
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Only the aspirants for president are fool enough to believe what they read in the newspapers.
Christopher Hitchens
The aspirants
For president
Fool enough
To believe
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When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher Hitchens
We talk
About morality
Our children
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Christopher Hitchens Quotes & Sayings