Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1275
AUTHOR:
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)
QUOTATION:
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder’s lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
ATTRIBUTION:
BERTRAND RUSSELL, Sceptical Essays, Introduction, p. 10 (1961).
