1,551 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its disciples that they should inhibit natural kindliness in favor of systematic hatred.

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.