If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

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Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

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Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

Bertrand Russell in Conquest of Happiness, 1930
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

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Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.

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