On est mille contre mille
A se croire les plus forts
Mais à l`heure imbécile
Où ça fait deux mille morts
On se retrouve seul
- Jacques Brel (1929-1978), "Seul"

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.
- Milton R. Sapirstein

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)

Good taste is the enemy of creativity
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Men cling passionately to old traditions and display intense reluctance to modify customary modes of behavior, as innovators at all times have found to their cost. The dead-weight of conservatism, largely a lazy and cowardly distaste for the strenuous and painful activity of real thinking, has undoubtedly retarded human progress..
- V. Gordon Childe, Man Makes Himself, p. 31

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Julius Caesar", Act II Scene 2

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika
- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented
- Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)