"Every advance in civilization has been denounced as……" — Bertrand Russell

"Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent"

— Bertrand Russell

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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to…
I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan…
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done…
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second…
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…
Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without…
Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in…
Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music,… — Billie Joe Armstrong
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. — Jane Addams
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may… — Pope Benedict XVI
Major North and myself went out in advance of the command several miles and killed a number of buffaloes. — Buffalo Bill
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance. — Aeschylus
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests. — John Bolton
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are… — John Bolton
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom. — George W. Bush
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a… — George W. Bush
I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways. — Jeb Bush
We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal… — David Cameron
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating.… — Albert Camus

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