Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
BERTRAND RUSSELLFreedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Your writing is never as good as you hoped, but never as bad as you feared.
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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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Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.
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Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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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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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Love is wise, hatred is foolish.
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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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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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