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Bertrand Russell on Veterans Day

1872–1970

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Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

Has Man a Future? (1962)

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Education and the Social Order (1932)

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

Justice in War-Time (1916)

Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man.

Fact and Fiction (1961)

Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?

The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

The Prospects of Industrial Civilization (1923)

"patriotism," i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Sceptical Essays (1928)

[Patriotism is the] willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Sceptical Essays (1928)

It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

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

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