Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

—Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an English mathematician and philosopher. A founder of analytic philosophy, he was a leading philosopher of the 20th century who produced pioneering work in logic, set theory, and philosophy of language. Russell popularised philosophy to...

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I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

—Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

—Bertrand Russell

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.

—Bertrand Russell

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

—Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

—Bertrand Russell

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Crime does not pay… as well as politics.

—Alfred E. Newman

Getting a living under capitalism… is so precarious, so uncertain, fraught with such pain and struggle that the wonder is not that so many people become vicious and criminal, but that so many remain in docile submission to such a tyrannous and debasing condition.

—Eugene V. Debs

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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

—David Letterman

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Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

—Eli Khamarov

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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