I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction.Bertrand Russell
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.Bertrand Russell
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.Bertrand Russell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.Bertrand Russell
There can't be a practical reason for believing what isn’t true.Bertrand Russell
It is a primitive form of thought that things either exist or do not exist.Bertrand Russell
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.Bertrand Russell
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
If the matter is one that can be settled by observation, make the observation yourself. Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.Bertrand Russell
Of course I realize that even this modest demand for common decency toward animals, will meet with a certain resistance, and I know that the reason will be 'Man's Superiority'.Bertrand Russell