"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries……" — Bertrand Russell
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."
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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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More Compensation Quotes
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one of 179 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
— Lord Acton
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life…
— William Barclay
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Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess…
— Bob Beauprez
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to…
— David Cameron
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The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth…
— Unknown Author
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This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
— Phyllis McGinley
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double.…
— George Sand
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Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.
— George Santayana
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Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do…
— Max Lucado
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