Christopher Hitchens

@Hitch_Slapping

Dedicated to the memory of Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011). Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, thank you very much for coming.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet

    "I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. 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."

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  2. 1. velj

    "Think of yourselves as free citizens who are not enthralled by any supernatural authority; which, you'll notice, is always interpreted for you by other mammals who claim to have access to this authority that gives them special power over you. Don't have your lives run like that"

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    "Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt."

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    "To whom do you award the right to decide which speech is harmful, or who is the harmful speaker? [...] To whom would you delegate the task of deciding for you what you could read - to relieve you of hearing what you might have to hear? To whom would you give this job?"

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    "Public opinion is often wrong, mob opinion is almost always wrong, and religious opinion is wrong by definition."

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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."

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    "Religion now comes to us in this smiley-faced, ingratiating way because it's had to give so much ground, and because we know so much more. But you have no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side."

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    "If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point is.' In this country I've been told, 'That's offensive', as if those two words constitute an argument or a comment; not to me they don't."

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  9. 26. sij

    "How dismal it is to see present-day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."

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  10. 25. sij

    "I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hatred in the world is religion, and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of it."

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  11. 18. sij

    "I can pay your debt if I love you. I can serve your term in prison if I love you very much. But I cannot take your sins away. I cannot abolish your responsibility, and I shouldn't offer to do so. Your responsibility *has* to stay with you; there is no vicarious redemption."

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  12. 18. sij

    "Millions of people think Henry Kissinger is a great statesman, but I know better. Millions of secular people thought Mother Teresa was a saintly woman - instead of the liar and thief that she actually was. The wind is always in your face."

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  13. 11. sij

    "It doesn't matter to me if he ever existed. But you see, the difference is, Socrates never said, 'You've got to believe everything I say or you go to Hell. And you have to agree with me because my mother never went to bed with anybody, and that proves the truth of what I say.'"

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  14. 11. sij

    "When someone stands up and says, 'I am a person of faith', they shouldn't get respect for it. They think that's a respect-producing statement: 'I am a person of faith'. In other words, 'I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all'."

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  15. 4. sij

    "A virgin can conceive, a dead body can walk again, leprosy can be cured ... Nonsense! It's not moral to lie to children; it's not moral to lie to ignorant, uneducated people, and tell them that if they only believe in nonsense they can be 'saved'. That's immoral."

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  16. 2. sij

    "If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world."

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  17. "I refuse to be told what to think or how - let alone what to say or write - by anybody. But most certainly not by people who claim the authority of fabricated works of primeval myth and fiction, and who want me to believe these are divine - that I won't have."

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  18. "We keep being told, 'respect faith.' Well, I actually don't, because I don't think that lying to children is a respectable occupation."

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  19. "People are afraid of attacking any expression of faith because it's seen as an attack on a 'community': 'communities' have to be respected, 'communities' mustn't have their feelings hurt. This is the exact opposite of a multi-cultural society, where everything can be discussed."

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  20. "We live only a few conscious decades, and yet we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes."

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  21. "People are frightened of death. And the central lie in all religion is that there's a cure for this, and that an exception can be made in your own case. Well, I'm sorry, but I think it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that, but that's why religion survives."

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