Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Religious freedom in an open society has the best prospects of flourishing to the extent that it expresses itself as freedom of religious inquiry.

The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

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.