The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Bertrand RussellIn mass cruelty, the expulsions of Germans ordered by the Russians fall not very far short of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis.
Bertrand RussellBelief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
Bertrand RussellIt has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory has been pushed too far. [...] The type of aggressiveness that is the outcome of timidity is not, I think, that which inspires great leaders; the great leaders, I should say, have an exceptional self-confidence which is not only on the surface, but penetrates deep into the subconscious.
Bertrand Russell