"Ideas and principles that do harm are as……" — Bertrand Russell
"Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions."
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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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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
— Robert Byrd
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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it…
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.
— Unknown Author
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Shame is pride's cloak.
— William Blake
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep!Ê It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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