Moral Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only…

— Bertrand Russell

Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts…

— Bertrand Russell

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

— Bertrand Russell

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Bertrand Russell

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted…

— Bertrand Russell

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that…

— Bertrand Russell

Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of…

— Bertrand Russell

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist…

— Bertrand Russell

I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it…

— Bertrand Russell

I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex…

— Bertrand Russell

Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting…

— Bertrand Russell

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is…

— Bertrand Russell

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you…

— Bertrand Russell

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma…

— Bertrand Russell

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in…

— Bertrand Russell

“not because the moral law enjoins unselfishness, but because, given the society in which they live, it is the way in which…

— Bertrand Russell

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.…

— Bertrand Russell

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease…

— Bertrand Russell

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal…

— Bertrand Russell

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease…

— Bertrand Russell

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the…

— Bertrand Russell

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.

— Bertrand Russell

Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to…

— Bertrand Russell

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to…

— Bertrand Russell