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“Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.”

Bertrand Russell · Freedom

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Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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Bertrand Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

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Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

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Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

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