When I come to my own beliefs, I find myself quite unable to discern any purpose in the universe, and still more unable to wish to discern one. - Bertrand Russell

The state is primarily an organization for killing foreigners.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

The harm that is done by a religion is of two sorts, the one depending on the kind of belief which it is thought ought to be given to it, and the other upon the particular tenets believed. As regards the kind of belief: it is thought virtuous to have faith—that is to say, to have a conviction which cannot be shaken by contrary evidence. Or, if contrary evidence might induce doubt, it is held that contrary evidence must be suppressed.