"What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory,……" — Bertrand Russell

"What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power."

— 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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More Easy Quotes

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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right… — Aristotle
In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Teresa of Avila
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right… — Johann Sebastian Bach
I want to do something creative, not just easy. — Sebastian Bach
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some… — Kevin Bacon

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