"Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience."

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Source : Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

Christopher Hitchens

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“I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
“Never underestimate the power of a woman.”
“Any strategy that attempts to reinforce faith by undermining science is also doomed to failure. Showing that some scientific theory is wrong will not prove that the religious alternative is correct by default. When the sun was shown not to be the center of the universe, as Copernicus had proposed, the Earth was not moved back to that singular position in the cosmos. If Darwinian evolution is proved wrong, biologists will not develop a new theory based on the hypothesis that each species was created separately by God 6,000years ago.”
“If we fail to see that there are powers that cause people to be bowed down in bondage, we are fighting the wrong battle.”
“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.371, Penguin
“Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.”
“Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.”
“No two snowflakes are alike...”

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