Social Quotes by Bertrand Russell

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

— Bertrand Russell

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

— Bertrand Russell

Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know…

— Bertrand Russell

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation.

— Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

— Bertrand Russell

Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical…

— Bertrand Russell

...the nonexistence of God makes more difference to some of us than to others. To me, it means that there is no…

— Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on…

— Bertrand Russell

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its…

— Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not…

— Bertrand Russell

Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation…

— Bertrand Russell

Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if…

— Bertrand Russell

The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in…

— Bertrand Russell

A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,…

— Bertrand Russell

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power…

— Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…

— Bertrand Russell

The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods…

— Bertrand Russell

I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where…

— Bertrand Russell

A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in…

— Bertrand Russell

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what…

— Bertrand Russell

Broadly speaking, Protestants like to be good and have invented theology in order to keep themselves so, whereas Catholics like to be…

— Bertrand Russell