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“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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The human species is an animal species without very much variation within it, and it is idle and futile to imagine that a voyage to Tibet, say, will discover an entirely different harmony with nature...

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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As Shakespeare put it in 'King Lear,' the policeman who lashes the whore has a hot need to use her for the very offense for which he plies the lash.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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My little ankle-strap sandals curled with embarrassment for her.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between...

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In order to be a part of the totalitarian mind-set, it is not necessary to wear a uniform or carry a club or a whip. It is only necessary to wish for your own subjection, and to delight in the...

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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There but for the grace of God,' said John Bradford in the sixteenth century, on seeing wretches led to execution, 'go I.' What this apparently compassionate observation really means -not that it...

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - 2007.

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