Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling? The… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Everyone knows the story of the traveler in Naples who saw twelve beggars lying in the sun (it was before the days… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that Christianity offers… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I cannot escape from the conclusion that the great ages of progress have depended upon a small number of individuals of transcendent ability. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
There is no greater reason for children to honour parents than for parents to honour children except, that while the children are young, the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
