 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
But although passions have had more to do than beliefs with what is amiss in human life, yet beliefs, especially where they are ancient and systematic and embodied in organizations, have a great power of delaying desirable changes of opinion and of influencing in the wrong direction people who otherwise would have no strong feeling either way.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Unpopular Essays, 1950, chapter 10: Ideas that have harmed mankind.
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