Bertrand Russell

The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation.

We owe to Christianity a certain respect for the individual....

The greatest part of what is called morality is merely a device for making others do our will.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

I am an atheist, but I must confess that I am also a pantheist.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin, more than death.

Freedom in education is a matter of degree.

It is a platitude that a man cannot be happy unless he is healthy.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Conscientious objection is a right that the state should respect, but which it has hardly ever respected.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but it ought not to set limits to imagination.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is no more than a formula for avoiding the difficult problem of how to make people happy.

All movements go too far.

It is easy to imagine a world where the sun never sets, and yet the inhabitants are miserable.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Love is wise; hatred is foolish.

The human race has been running a race in which the prize is death.

If a man is to be happy, he must not only be free from the fear of death, but from the fear of life.

The only way to be happy is to take pleasure in everything you do.

The degree of a man's freedom is the measure of his intelligence.