Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLIt’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
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Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered to me.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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Is there any knowledge in the world that is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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.
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