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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...
• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
  To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavour after a worthy manner of life....
• Men tend to have the beliefs that suit their passions.
  Cruel men believe in a cruel God and use their belief to excuse their cruelty....
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• Christ believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• The most important thing in the programming language is the name.
  A language will not succeed without a good name....
• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something
  in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones....
• All movements go too far. -- Bertrand Russell