"Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel……" — Bertrand Russell
"Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses."
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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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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But…
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China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.
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Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under…
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a…
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
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I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people…
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of…
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Terror made me cruel.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
— Edmund Burke
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
— Leo Buscaglia
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