The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Most men do not feel in themselves the competence required for leading their group to victory, and therefore seek out a captain… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The slave is doomed to worship Time and Fate and Death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness… — 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
