Bertrand Russell on Reasonable Belief
The Quotable Bertrand Russell (ed. Lee Eisler, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1993), p. 261.
If you think your belief is based upon reason, you will support it by
argument rather than by persecution, and will abandon it if the
argument goes against you. But if your belief is based upon faith, you
will realize that argument is useless, and will therefore resort to
force either in the form of persecution or by stunting or distorting
the minds of the young in what is called 'education.'
Faith and/or Reason

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