Bertrand Russell Quotes


Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel. - Bertrand Russell



You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism. - Bertrand Russell



You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning. - Bertrand Russell



Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so. - Bertrand Russell