"By religion I mean a set of beliefs……" — Bertrand Russell
"By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all…
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions…
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A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population…
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Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an…
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Public schools are government-established, politician- and bureaucrat-controlled, fully politicized, taxpayer-supported, authoritarian socialist institutions. In fact, the public-school system is one…
— Tom L. Johnson
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A state does not simply fall apart as a result of depression... [Weimar Germany] was not destroyed by economic depression…
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Women's liberation, if it abolishes the patriarchal family, will abolish a necessary substructure of the authoritarian state, and once that…
— Germaine Greer
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Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry…
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RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Parents who discipline their child by discussing the consequences of their actions produce children who have better moral development ,…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never…
— Mickey Rourke
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