teste

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

Man is a useless passion.

Philosophers are as jealous as women. Each wants a monopoly of praise.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

The man who gets angry at the right things and with the right people, and in the right way and at the right time and for the right length of time, is commended.

Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.

Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force.

Rome has spoken; the case is concluded.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

Woman is not yet capable of friendship: women are still cats and birds. Or, at best, cows.

One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.

You might just take Bertrand Russell on a beach holiday, as I once did; but Kant, never.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense - nonsense upon stilts.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.