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Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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These are some quotes by British author Bertrand Russell Philosopher, who lived between May 18, 1872 and February 2, 1970.

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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.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

Bertrand Russell

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Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton

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You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

Spike Milligan

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