Religions that teach brotherly love have... by Bertrand Russell

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Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

- Bertrand Russell

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Happiness Life

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

- Bertrand Russell

Infinity

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

- Bertrand Russell

Life

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

- Bertrand Russell

Successful Feeling

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

- Bertrand Russell

Error Fact

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

- Bertrand Russell

Purpose May Nothing

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

- Bertrand Russell

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