349 ratings (4.09 avg)
27 reviews

Pranav Joshi

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/pranavsj

Pranav’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (10)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (355)

astrology‎ (1)
china‎ (1)
chinese-economy‎ (1)

fascism-woke-culture‎ (1)
future-of-india‎ (1)
greenstone-lobo‎ (1)

xi-jinping‎ (1)

Stats | More…

Pranav’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Origins of Totalitarianism (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Origins of Totalitarianism (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hannah Arendt

25 highlights

The more equal conditions are, the less explanation there is for the differences that actually exist between people; and thus all the more unequal do individuals and groups become.

See Pranav Joshi’s 9 books with notes and highlights…

Pranav’s Quotes

“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: atheism, humanism

1077 likes

“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.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

294 likes

“The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

21 likes

“[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

526 likes

“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: evidence, skepticism

392 likes

More of Pranav’s quotes…