I’ve never believed in anything in my life. Yes, Prime Minister s1e7: The Bishop’s Gambit, Sir Humphrey to Sir Arnold, BBC 2013
55% of Icelanders believe in elves and fairies. Iceland with Alexander Armstrong, Channel 5 2021
Solzhenitsyn: Faced by the failure of the revolutionary dream, it was now difficult to believe in anything. That maybe ideology itself was the problem … In every case, he said, thousands and often millions were killed … The only way to escape from that horror was to stop trying to change the world … Believe in nothing. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head III: Money Changes Everything, BBCiplayer 2021
Money has created a society where nobody believes in anything, and nothing can be trusted. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? *****
I held on. I maintained my belief, my faith, my belief in man. I held on, and I still here hold on through all the anguish and deceit and lies and corruption, through all the disappointments, and doubts, and fears, through all the necessary lies … Play for Today: Traitor by Dennis Potter, Harris to journalists, BBC 1971