"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality……" — Bertrand Russell
"Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value."
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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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More Civic Quotes
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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
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I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations…
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I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind…
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Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming…
— Barbara Jordan
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Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and…
— John Ashcroft
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It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are…
— Noah Webster
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In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
— John Goddard
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Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to…
— Unknown Author
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The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to…
— Ludwig von Mises
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O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten…
— Pope John XXIII
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