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„To, co může být tvrzeno bez důkazů, může být bez nich také odmítnuto.“

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„Jedním z důvodů, proč rád debatuji s věřícími, je, že nikdy nevíte, co řeknou příště.“

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Zdroj: HITCHENS, Christopher. Is there an afterlife?. [Diskuze se Samem Harrisem a rabíny Davidem Wolpem a Bradleym Artsonem Shavitem]. 15. 2. 2011. Videozáznam http://www.jewishtvnetwork.com/?bcpid=533363107&bctid=802338105001 (anglicky).

„Jsem opravdu rád, že ve skutečnosti neexistuje žádný neustálý, neotřesitelný, nevyvratitelný božský dohled – božská Severní Korea, v níž žádné soukromí ani žádná svoboda nepřichází v úvahu od okamžiku početí a nikoli do okamžiku smrti, ale i poté. Byl jsem v Severní Koreji a vím tedy, jak by zbožný stát vypadal. Vím, jak by to vypadalo modlit se k Bohu od rána do večera. Viděl jsem to na vlastní oči. A je to ta nejodpornější, nejdepresivněší a nezbytečnější bezduchá věc, kterou si můžete představit. Ale v Severní Koreji můžet aspoň zemřít nebo odejít. Křesťanství Vám tohle nedovolí…“

Christopher Hitchens

Zdroj: HITCHENS, Christopher. Is God Great?. [Diskuze s Alem Sharptonem]. 7. 5. 2007. Videozáznam http://fora.tv/2007/05/07/Al_Sharpton_and_Christopher_Hitchens, přepis http://hitchensdebates.blogspot.cz/2010/11/hitchens-vs-sharpton-new-york-public.html (anglicky).

„Po stovky a tisíce let by se tahle diskuze [mezi věřícími a ateisty] na většině míst nemohla odehrát, resp. bychom Sam [Harris] a já při tom riskovali život. Teď za námi náboženství přichází s tímhle úlisně usměvavým výrazem, protože muselo opravdu hodně ustoupit a protože toho nyní mnohem víc víme. Nezapomínejte však, jak se chovalo, když bylo silné a když skutečně věřilo, že Bůh je na jeho straně.“

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„V tomhle případě nelpí důkazní břemeno na nás [ateistech]. My neříkáme, že nevíra v Boha vás učiní lepšími nebo mravnějšími. My odporujeme těm, kdo říkají, že víra v jakousi neprokazatelnou nadpřirozenou bytost vás učiní mravnějšími. A o tom víme, že to není pravda.“

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„Věřím, že kde končí náboženství, začíná filozofie; kde končí alchymie, začíná chemie; kde končí astrologie, začíná astronomie; a teď by lidé začali říkat: „ Dejme ve školách stejný prostor astrologii." To je nesmysl – nebezpečný a zlověstný.“

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k výuce náboženství na školách
Zdroj: HITCHENS, Christopher. Is God Great?. [Diskuze s Alem Sharptonem]. 7. 5. 2007. Videozáznam http://fora.tv/2007/05/07/Al_Sharpton_and_Christopher_Hitchens, přepis http://hitchensdebates.blogspot.cz/2010/11/hitchens-vs-sharpton-new-york-public.html (anglicky).

Christopher Hitchens: Citáty anglicky

“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.”

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Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Zdroj: Mortality

“The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”

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“Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and—since there is no other metaphor—also the soul.”

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“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”

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[Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, 2004, 1560255803, 2005298401, 56991027, 24964445M]
2000s, 2004

“I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“Courage moral and physical: 'anima'—the ability to think like a woman. Also a sense of the absurd. Courage moral and physical: “anima”—the ability to visualize the mind and need of a man. Also a sense of the absurd.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.”

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Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Zdroj: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.”

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Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Zdroj: 2000s, 2001, Letters to a Young Contrarian (2001)

“If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.”

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“My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilization, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.”

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Zdroj: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”

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“[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”

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“Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a repressed desire to participate.”

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Zdroj: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“The search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.”

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Christopher Hitchens kniha Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Zdroj: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.”

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Zdroj: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.”

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Christopher Hitchens kniha Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Zdroj: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

“Philosophy begins where religion ends, just as by analogy chemistry begins where alchemy runs out, and astronomy takes the place of astrology.”

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Zdroj: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“She's got no charisma of any kind [but] I can imagine her being mildly useful to a low-rank porn director.”

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“An appreciation for irony.”

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Zdroj: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics.”

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Zdroj: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/10/16/he-knew-he-was-right-2 note: Our Short National Nightmare note: The New Yorker note: In The New Yorker, October 16, 2006 note: 2000s, 2006