Quote by Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act human

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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Time
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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. – Bertrand Russell

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Torture
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The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. – Edward Albert

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There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion. – Charles de Montesquieu

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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. – Orison Swett Marden

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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. – Abu Bakr

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious. – Henry Adams

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