I think that the evils that men inflict on each other, and by reflection upon themselves, have their main source in evil passions rather than in ideas or beliefs. But ideas and principles that do harm are, as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Ideas That Have Harmed Mankind，1946.
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