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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

-- Bertrand Russell

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There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

-- Bertrand Russell

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