I would be quite content to go to their children's bar mitzvahs, to marvel at their Gothic cathedrals, to 'respect' their belief that the Koran was dictated, though exclusively in Arabic, to an illiterate merchant, or to interest myself in Wicca and Hindu and Jain consolations. And as it happens, I will continue to do this without insisting on the polite reciprocal condition - which is that they in turn leave me alone. But this, religion is ultimately incapable of doing.
Christopher HitchensSi me convierto será porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: religion death-and-dying ateísmo
There is no conceit equal to false modesty, and there is no
politics like antipolitics
But we do believe in religion—at least for other people. It is a means of
marketing hope, and of instilling ethical precepts on the cheap. It is also a form of discipline.
There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses
Christopher HitchensJoseph Heller knew how the need to belong, and the need for security, can make people accept lethal and stupid conditions, and then act as if they had imposed them on themselves.
Christopher HitchensA life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...
Christopher HitchensStichwörter: life-and-living
History is more of a tragedy than it is a morality tale.
Christopher HitchensLaughter can be the most affirming and uniquely human sound,and also the most sinister and animalistic one.
Christopher Hitchens[Nicholson] Baker can't seem to get enough of the wisdom of Gandhi and cites at length an open letter he wrote to the British people on 3 July 1940. "Your soldiers are doing the same work of destruction as the Germans," wrote the Mahatma. "I want you to fight Nazism without arms." He went on to say: "Let them take possession of your beautiful island, with your many beautiful buildings. You will give all these, but neither your souls, nor your minds. If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourself, man, woman and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them." I must say that everything in me declines to be addressed in that tone of voice
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