Bertrand Russell – Uncommon Sense

Check your assumptions

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Envy is the basis of Democracy.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.