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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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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours. – Bertrand Russell

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A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. – Bertrand Russell

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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other peoples happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. – Bertrand Russell

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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself. – Albert Schweitzer

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The healthy man does not torture others — generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers. – Carl Gustav Jung

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Ive already told you: the only way to a womans heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. – Marquis De Sade

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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