To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être if they are deprived of the benefits of conquest.

Probably in time physiologists will be able to make nerves connecting the bodies of different people; this will have the advantage that we shall be able to feel another man's tooth aching.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.