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“The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.”
― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

tags: critical-thinking, extremism, opinion, opinions, passion, rationalism, skeptic, skeptical, skepticism, superficiality

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“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”
― Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

tags: fear, herd-behavior, herd-mentality, insanity, irrationality

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“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: bertrand-russel

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