- Change theme
Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
- Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
- Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
- Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
- Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
- Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
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