Quote by Bertrand Russell
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific in

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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