If all deities were proven not to exist, the greatest questions in life would still be at hand. | Christopher Hitchens

The person who says that of Marxism that it is determinist convicts himself, at once, of never having opened a book by Marx or by Marxists. "Men make history, but they do not make it under circumstances of their own choosing. They make it, but under circumstances directly transmitted and engaged from the past. The traditions of all the dead generations weigh like a nightmare on the brain of the living." | Christopher Hitchens

It's a big assumption that there's a creator of the universe, which is, in itself, unfalsifiable, and the assumption that that force cares about me personally is infinitely greater. | Christopher Hitchens