Luis Hernández > Luis's Quotes

“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Faith begins precisely where thinking leaves off.”
― Kierkegaard

“Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all. How dare you intervene? As well ask, How dare you not?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“Did I ever think I might have been wrong? Yes, sometimes and briefly. But never because of the supposed majority against me.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian

“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
― Thomas Jefferson