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 RUSSELLAristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives’ mouths.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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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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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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One must care about a world one will not see.
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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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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