Modern methods of production have given us the possibility of ease and security for all; we have chosen, instead, to have overwork for some and starvation for the others. Hitherto we have continued to be as energetic as we were before there were machines; in this we have been foolish, but there is no reason to go on being foolish for ever.
-- Bertrand Russell - In Praise of Idleness.
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
-- Sam Harris - Letter to a Christian Nation
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.
-- Voltaire