"Government can easily exist without laws, but law……" — Bertrand Russell
"Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government."
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Bertrand Russell
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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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Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the…
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the…
— William Blake
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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They…
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
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Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.
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Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's…
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Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility , because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology…
— Jean Genet
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
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