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
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. – Bertrand Russell
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
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell