[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.

A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of insensitiveness than out of deliberate intent, whatever increases sensitiveness of perception and understanding humanizes life.

Russell's prose has been compared by T.S. Eliot to that of David Hume's. I would rank it higher, for it had more color, juice, and humor. But to be lucid, exciting and profound in the main body of one's work is a combination of virtues given to few philosophers. Bertrand Russell has achieved immortality by his philosophical writings.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.