People Quotes by Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

— Bertrand Russell

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

— Bertrand Russell

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

— Bertrand Russell

Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.

— Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

— Bertrand Russell

Organized people are just too lazy to look for things

— Bertrand Russell

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

— Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

— Bertrand Russell

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.

— Bertrand Russell

I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

— Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured…

— Bertrand Russell

Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

— Bertrand Russell

Human nature being what it is, people will insist upon getting some pleasure out of life.

— Bertrand Russell

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this…

— Bertrand Russell

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in…

— Bertrand Russell

While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.

— Bertrand Russell

That Plato's Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary…

— Bertrand Russell

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is…

— Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure…

— Bertrand Russell

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a…

— Bertrand Russell

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove…

— Bertrand Russell

One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…

— Bertrand Russell

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have…

— Bertrand Russell

Most people believe in God because they have been taught from early infancy to do it, and that is the main reason.…

— Bertrand Russell

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be…

— Bertrand Russell

I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there…

— Bertrand Russell

More and more people are becoming unable to accept traditional [religious] beliefs. If they think that, apart from these beliefs, there is…

— Bertrand Russell

The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based…

— Bertrand Russell

It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater;…

— Bertrand Russell

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…

— Bertrand Russell

Experience has taught me a technique for dealing with such people [...] I counter the devotees of the Great Pyramid by adoration…

— Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

— Bertrand Russell

The whiter my hair becomes, the more ready people are to believe what I say.

— Bertrand Russell

Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued.

— Bertrand Russell

“Most people would rather die than think and many of them do!”

— Bertrand Russell

Some people would rather die than think.

— Bertrand Russell

Calculating machines do sums better than even the cleverest people… As arithmetic has grown easier, it has come to be less respected.

— Bertrand Russell

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

— Bertrand Russell

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over…

— Bertrand Russell