Christopher Hitchens was a writer and an orator with a matchless style, commanding a vocabulary and a range of literary and historical allusion far wider than anybody I know.

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• Richard Dawkins:

  What is illiberal is not persuasion but imposition of one's views.

• Richard Dawkins:

  Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

• Richard Dawkins:

  People say I'm shrill and strident.

• Richard Dawkins:

  I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religiou

• Richard Dawkins:

  I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better eq

• Richard Dawkins:

  When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of the

• Richard Dawkins:

  If you look up at the Milky Way through the eyes of Carl Sagan, you get a feeling in your chest of

• Richard Dawkins:

  If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that the

• Richard Dawkins:

  We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

• Richard Dawkins:

  The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.