How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
BERTRAND RUSSELLMen are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3 parts dead.
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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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Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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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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Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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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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It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.
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