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Without civic morality communities perish without personal morality their survival has no value.
Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
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(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.
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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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Religion is based ... mainly upon fear ... fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand. My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race.
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Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
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Zeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
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The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a point, he will contemplate something else instead.
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If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.
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Dora and I are now married, but just as happy as we were before.
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Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it.
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How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
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Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.
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