Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
Faith and DoubtThe religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.
N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-upsAMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary