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Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective
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Bertrand Russell
Age: 97 †
Born: 1872
Born: May 18
Died: 1970
Died: February 2
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The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
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If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
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The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
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Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man who had seduced her. How absurd!
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The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.
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I feel as if one would only discover on one's death bed what one ought to have lived for
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
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There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that of infanticide or really destructive wars, and the third that of general misery except for a powerful minority.
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The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
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