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Кристофер Эрик Хитченс — американский журналист, публицист и писатель английского происхождения, колумнист Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation и Free Inquiry.

В 1991 году Кристофер Хитченс получил Лэннанскую литературную премию в области нехудожественной литературы, в 2005 году он занял пятое место в рейтинге 100 публичных интеллектуалов журналов Prospect и Foreign Policy, в 2009 году журнал Forbes включил Хитченса в число 25 самых влиятельных либералов США. Почётный член Национального секулярного общества. Брат Питера Хитченса. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Апрель 1949 – 15. Декабрь 2011  •  Другие имена Christopher Eric Hitchens
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Кристофер Хитченс знаменитые цитаты

„Да, Библия благословляет торговлю людьми, этнические чистки, рабство, выкуп невест и массовые убийства, но поскольку ее написали дикие, невежественные млекопитающие, мы вовсе не обязаны ей следовать.“

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„Рискните думать самостоятельно. В ответ вы получите гораздо больше счастья, мудрости, правды и красоты.“

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„Весь наш вид отличает столь всепоглощающая склонность к эгоизму и глупости, что любой проблеск разума вызывает некоторое удивление.“

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Кристофер Хитченс: Цитаты на английском языке

“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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Christopher Hitchens

Источник: 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

Источник: 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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Источник: 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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Источник: 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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Источник: 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

Источник: 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

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

“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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Источник: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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

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Источник: 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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Источник: 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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Источник: 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 книга Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

Источник: 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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Источник: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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

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

Источник: 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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Источник: 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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Источник: Hitch-22: A Memoir

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

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Источник: 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

“The finest fury is the most controlled.”

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

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

“A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.”

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Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Источник: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.”

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Источник: Hitch-22: A Memoir

“I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.”

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Christopher Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian

Источник: Letters to a Young Contrarian

“A 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'…”

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Источник: Hitch-22: A Memoir

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

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Christopher Hitchens

Источник: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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