Bertrand Russell Quotes

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”


“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”
 
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way”
 
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty; a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture”


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”
 
“Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.”


The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”