When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
Bertrand RussellSt. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Bertrand RussellThe time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations from the universal death which their governments are preparing for them.
Bertrand RussellThere is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
Bertrand Russell