Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield…

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more…

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are…

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not…

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power…

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is…

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves…

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are…

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and…

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of…

Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are…

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true…

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is…

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all…

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope…