Bertrand Russell

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"Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States."	Success, Law
"Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat."	Wisdom
"Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time."	Miscellaneous
"Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time."	Quotations
"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."	Science
"Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself."	Fear
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand."	Fear
"Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken."	Wisdom
"I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy."	Science
"I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting."	Love
"I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting."	Friendship, Dreams
"If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?"	Quotations
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."	Comedy, Honesty
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."	Wisdom
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."	Success, Ignorance
"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."	God, Stupidity
"No man treats a motor car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, he does not say, "You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go." He attempts to find out what is wrong and set it right."	Religion
"Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position."	God, Teaching
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."	Patriotism
"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."	Anti-Religion, War
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