"You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster,……" — Bertrand Russell
"You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning"
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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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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of…
— Aristotle
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.
— Mortimer Adler
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I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
— Richard Branson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
— C.S. Lewis
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It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
— Samuel Johnson
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They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
— Sun Tzu
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When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in…
— Sun Tzu
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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be…
— Joseph Hall
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
— Karl Pearson
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Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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