Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.
BERTRAND RUSSELLThe only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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It seems to me fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it’s useful and not because you think it’s true.
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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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Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.
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Aristotle 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.
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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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Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
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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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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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