--Daniel J. Boorstin
One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. The also believed the world was flat.
--Mark Twain
Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about. And those who preach faith and enable and elevate it are intellectual slave holders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsesnse that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction.
--Bill Maher
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
--Kurt Vonnegut
The most costly of all follies it to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
--H.L. Mencken
An agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
--Studs Terkel
I was raised an atheist. Every Sunday, we went nowhere. We prayed for nothing. And all our prayers were answered.
--Heidi Joyce