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.
BERTRAND RUSSELLMachines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No one ever gossips about the virtues of others.
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
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Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
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One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
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The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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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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