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• Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love for power.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967)...
• Sin is geographical. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• I]t seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
  -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967), "Sceptical Essays", 1928...
• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
  -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical_Essays", 1928...
• What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
  -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928...
• What is wanted is not the will-to-believe, but the wish to find out, which is exact opposite.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
  -- Bertrand Russell...