Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
War can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Who ever heard a theologian preface his creed, or a politician conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The time has come, or is about to come, when only large-scale civil disobedience, which should be nonviolent, can save the populations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political… — 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
“A man votes for one party and remains miserable; he concludes that it was the other party that would bring the millennium.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The institution of representative government to us seems an essential part of democracy, but the ancients never thought of it. Its immense… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In national politics, where you are one of some twenty million voters, your influence is infinitesimal unless you are exceptional or occupy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share
With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“People do not always remember that politics, economics, and social organisation generally, belong in the realm of means, not ends. Our political… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has… — 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 Image
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 Image
Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.' — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Such, in outline, but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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