If there were in the world today any large number ... -Bertrand Russell

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 a paradise in a few years.

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Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. He made significant contributions to various fields of study, including philosophy of language, logic, and mathematics. Russell was also an outspoken advocate for peace, human rights, and nuclear disarmament.

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons....
Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country....
War does not determine who is right - only who is left....
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and wom...
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....
Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact....
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education....
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change....
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery....
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 me...

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While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck....
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But i...
Being married to your best friend, that's happiness....
Me, I've been lucky to be good at happiness....
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness....
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime....
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, tha...
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and the...
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are....
Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your...