Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
BERTRAND RUSSELLI believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Love is something far more than the desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Even if all the experts agree, they may well be mistaken.
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Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.
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I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
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I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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