Bertrand Russell

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"What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices."	Success, Law
"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
"The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them."	Family
"Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matters; second, telling other people to do so."	Philosophy
"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand."	Fear
"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."	Fear
"There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition."	Economics, Hope
"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
"When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory."	Wisdom
"Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."	Wisdom
"Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken."	Wisdom
"Common sense is what tells you that the world is flat."	Wisdom
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."	Fear
"The total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."	Marriage
"Sin is geographical."	Quotations
"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
"The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself."	Quotations
"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
"I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy."	Science
"Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events."	Miscellaneous
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