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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of gr

If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? – Bertrand Russell

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. – Bertrand Russell

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell

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An unattempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

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All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root… – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

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