Kristin

“Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons”
― Bertrand Russell

“There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.”
― Bertrand Russell

“As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods.”
― Bertrand Russell