Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
Bertrand RussellThere is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.
Bertrand RussellZeno was concerned with three problems... These are the problem of the infinitesimal, the infinite, and continuity.
Bertrand RussellThe use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.
Bertrand Russell