"Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous……" — Bertrand Russell
"Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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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…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
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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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Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the…
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and…
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I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're…
— Benjamin Carson
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
— Aberjhani
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I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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In any civilized society, it is every citizen's responsibility to obey just laws. But at the same time, it is…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
— Unknown Author
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But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will…
— Hans Zinsser
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The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
— H. L. Mencken
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