"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly……" — Bertrand Russell
"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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Bertrand Russell
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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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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day…
— Joseph Addison
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
— Aeschylus
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep…
— Alan Bleasdale
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred…
— Lord Byron
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After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services…
— Tony Campolo
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No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
— John Cassavetes
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If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to…
— Maya Angelou
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The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.
— John Cusack
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