1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

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.

When all experts agree, you need to watch out.

I do not think any reasonable person can doubt that in India, China and Japan, if the knowledge of birth control existed, the birthrate would fall very rapidly

The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.