Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.
Bertrand RussellMankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.
Bertrand RussellIt is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.
Bertrand RussellIf we were all given by magic the power to read each otherโs thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to be intolerable, and we should learn to like each other without needing a veil of illusion to conceal from ourselves that we did not think each other absolutely perfect.
Bertrand Russell