“The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.” — Bertrand Russell, “Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness,” Sceptical Essays
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“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.” — Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness,” Harper’s Magazine (October 1932)
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“The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.” — Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness,” Harper’s Magazine (October 1932)
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“Political opinions are hardly ever based upon evidence, except in the case of civil servants, who are forbidden to give utterance to them.” — Bertrand Russell, “On the Value of Scepticism,” Sceptical Essays
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“The difficulty is to persuade the human race to acquiesce in its own survival.” — Bertrand Russell, “The Atomic Bomb and the Prevention of War,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1946-10-01)
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“We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices.” — Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity
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“’Change’ is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.” — Bertrand Russell, Philosophy and Politics
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“Fanaticism is the danger of the world, and always has been, and has done untold harm. I might almost say that I was fanatical against fanaticism.” — Bertrand Russell, The Listener
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“No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.” — Bertrand Russell, On Education
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“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.” — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
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