Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. (Bertrand Russell)

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

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