If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.
Bertrand RussellMany a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
Bertrand RussellBut courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.
Bertrand Russell