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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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Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
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In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
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Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.
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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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One must care about a world one will not see.
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With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
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I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in.
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
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To avoid the various foolish opinions to which mankind are prone, no superhuman genius is required. A few simple rules will keep you, not from all error, but from silly error.
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[There has been] every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.
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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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