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| Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. |
| by Bertrand Russell |
| Don't tax me, don't tax thee, tax the man behind the tree! |
| by Sen. Russell Long |
| Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. |
| by James Russell Lowell |
| He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft. |
| by James Russell Lowell |
| Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. |
| by James Russell Lowell |
| We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him. |
| by James Russell Lowell |
| The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb. |
| by Russell Baker |
| Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal persons avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again. |
| by Russell Watson |
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