"Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional……" — Bertrand Russell
"Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils; not theological demons inspired by the evil one, but scientific Freudian abominations inspired by the unconscious."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will…
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and…
— Barack Obama
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be…
— Oscar Romero
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty…
— Alexander Cockburn
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It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
— Marlon Riggs
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
— Horace Kephart
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we…
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It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.
— Mark Foley
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