I once received a letter from an eminent logician, Mrs. Christine Ladd Franklin, saying that she was a solipsist, and was surprised that there were n… - Bertrand Russell

إن حرباً نووية قد تقضي على الجنس البشري، ولذا فهي لن تشبع الغرائز التنازعية التي كانت توحي بالحروب فيما مضى. مثل هذا الوضع يثير حيرة رجال الدولة، لم يعد ممكنناً شن حروب من الطراز القديم الذي كان يشبع دعاتها، والبديل أمام هؤلاء هو السلام أو الإبادة.

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...].
The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself.
The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits.
The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.
And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

... it may be hoped that the white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence. But it is to be hoped that the religious prejudices which have hitherto hampered the spread of birth control will die out, and that ... the whole world will learn not to be unduly prolific. Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary.