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Disputed quotes — Bertrand Russell

1872–1970

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8 quotes

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Disputed to Russell in Prochnow's Speakers Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955)

One must care about a world one will not see.

Disputed to Russell in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations (1997)

Not enough evidence God! Not enough evidence!

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In all affairs – love, religion, politics, or business – it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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A new moral outlook is called for in which submission to the powers of nature is replaced by respect for what is best in man. It is where this respect is lacking that scientific technique is dangerous.

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I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bertrand Russell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.