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Against Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may…
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three…
- Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the…
- The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view…
- Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand-in-hand. It is because fear is at…
- Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect…
- In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the…
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will…
- The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
- A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity…
- If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the…
- The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
- Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war…
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- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
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