Bertrand Russell — "The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

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

"A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples."

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

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not need happiness."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid tha…"