People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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Nine-tenths of the activities of modern government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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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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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism: a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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I dislike communism because it is undemocratic, and capitalism because it favors exploitation.
		-- Bertrand Russell
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