While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
Bertrand RussellAfricans had to be taught that nudity is wicked; this was done very cheaply by missionaries.
Bertrand RussellTo acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand RussellThe white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them.
Bertrand RussellWhat makes a free thinker is not his beliefs, but the way in which he holds them. If he holds them because his elders told him they were true when he was young, or if he holds them because if he did not he would be unhappy, his thought is not free; but if he holds them because, after careful thought, he finds a balance in their favor, then his thought is free, however odd his conclusions may seem.
Bertrand Russell