Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)
Nobel Prize in Literature, British Philosopher, Logician, Mathematician,
Historian, Social Critic, Anti-War Activist, and Anti-Imperialist

None of the higher mental processes are required for conservatism. The advocate of change, on the contrary, must have a certain degree of imagination in order to be able to conceive of anything different from what exists . . . Both intelligence and sympathy, therefore, tend to be less repressed by an education hostile to the status quo than by one which is friendly to it . . . Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. And in this respect the orthodoxy of the radical is no better than that of the reactionary.