"It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune……" — Bertrand Russell

"It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity."

— 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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This quote is filed under Attribute Quotes, one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be… — Aristotle
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the… — Marcus Aurelius
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities,… — Joseph Addison
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man. — Graydon Carter
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. — Agatha Christie
Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a… — B.F. Skinner
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely… — P.G. Wodehouse
Create unselfishness as the most important team attribute. — Bill Russell
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we… — Henry David Thoreau
Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. — Warren G. Harding
Novelty is an essential attribute of the beautiful. — Benjamin Disraeli
The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their… — Charles Darwin

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