Top 132 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

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

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

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.