Bertrand Russell Quotes

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“'patriotism,' i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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“don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“But with the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are all embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

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