“marriage is likely to be what is called happy if niether party ever expected to get much happiness out of it” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is illegal in England to state in print that a wife can and should derive sexual pleasure from intercourse — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The bulk of the population of every country is persuaded that all marriage customs other than its own are immoral, and that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Leibniz was somewhat mean about money. When any young lady at the court of Hanover married, he used to give her what… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The bulk of the population of every country is persuaded that all marriage customs other than its own are immoral, and that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When considering marriage one should ask oneself this question; 'will I be able to talk with this person into old age?' Everything… — 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
