I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens
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  1. Men build too many walls and not enough bridges. - Joseph Fort Newton

  2. Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice. - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  3. If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong. - Jasper Fforde

  4. Quote words that affirmall men and women are yourbrothers and sisters. - Aberjhani

  5. It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. - Criss Jami

More Quotes By Christopher Hitchens
  1. What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

  2. About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one...

  3. I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim–so modestly and so humbly–to possess. It is time to withdraw our...

  4. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him will believeth in anything. - Hitchens 3:16

  5. My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.

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