Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
Bertrand RussellA sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand RussellOur instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should.
Bertrand Russell