Bertrand Russell with some bars when responding to a bad faith fascist.

How to Handle Provocation: Bertrand Russell’s Remarkable Response to a Fascist:

I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.

I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement.