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“Better red than dead.”

Bertrand Russell, attributes this phrase to 'West German friends of peace' but adopted this slogan for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament he helped found http://books.google.com/books?id=c4UoX6-Sv1AC&pg=PA49 William Safire, Safire's Political Dictionary, (2008) p. 49–50
Misattributed

“All movements go too far.”

1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)

“"I don't want to! Why should I?"
"Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't."
"So what? I don't care about other people."
"You should."
"But why?"
"Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't."”

Dialogue between Russell and his daughter Katharine, as quoted in My Father – Bertrand Russell (1975)
Attributed from posthumous publications

“Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.”

Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 4: The Study of Mathematics

“Drunkenness is temporary suicide.”

1930s, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

“A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest but poor.”

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits (1948), part II, chapter 1, p. 74
1940s

“There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.”

In Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell (1971)
Attributed from posthumous publications