Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption."
-Bertrand Russell

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
-Bertrand Russell

"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
-Bertrand Russell

"In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying."
-Bertrand Russell

"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century."
-Bertrand Russell