Bertrand Russell Quotes
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Men, quite ordinary men, will compel children to look on while their mothers are raped. In pursuit of political aims men will submit their opponents to long years of unspeakable anguish
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Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery
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More important than the curriculum is the question of the methods of teaching and the spirit in which the teaching is given
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires
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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
[Fear]
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
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No great achievement is possible without persistent work.
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No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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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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No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
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Not enough evidence, God, not enough evidence.
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
[Decisions]
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