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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
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More Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
