"If you had the power to destroy the…" — Bertrand Russell
"If you had the power to destroy the world, would you do so?"
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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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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
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All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and…
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time…
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Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget…
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it…
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