"His wit and irony - particularly when he……" — Bertrand Russell
"His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable"
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell has 824 quotes on this site.
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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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More Condemn Quotes
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one of 412 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
— Georges Bernanos
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Let me completely condemn these sickening scenes; scenes of looting, scenes of vandalism, scenes of thieving, scenes of people attacking…
— David Cameron
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The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
— Albert Camus
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If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as…
— Richard Carmona
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our…
— Jimmy Carter
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize…
— Deepak Chopra
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before…
— Huldrych Zwingli
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I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of…
— Gene Roddenberry
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Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive…
— Lionel Trilling
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
— Emile Durkheim
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Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself.
— Georg Groddeck
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