Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious edu… - Bertrand Russell

An irrational fear should never be simply let alone, but should be gradually overcome by familiarity with its fainter forms.

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalisation would be just as well founded as the generalisation which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.

There are those who blame the Press, but in this I think they are mistaken. The Press is such as the public demands, and the public demands bad newspapers because it has been badly educated.