Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely...

#Fear

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin --...

#Fear, #Thought

Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with...

#God

The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms.

#God

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did...

#Law And Lawyers

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than...

#Ethics, #Morality

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach...

#Morality

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

#Freedom

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book,...

#Law And Lawyers

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is...

#Mankind, #Men, #Pride

Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work

#Marriage

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired...

#Marriage, #Men And Women, #Women