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 RUSSELLConventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
More Bertrand Russell Quotes
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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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I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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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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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence that could support this.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.
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It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
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The demand for certainty is one that is natural to man but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won’t go.
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A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.
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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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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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