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It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.': Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays (1928), "Recrudescence of Puritanism"
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays, 1961
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Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

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