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

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.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

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.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

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