"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
― Bertrand Russell
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Good
― Bertrand Russell
More From Bertrand Russell
- "Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."
- "Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
- "The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history."
More In Good
- "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."― Louisa May Alcott
- "I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good."― Socrates
- "I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."― Ralph Waldo Emerson