Funny Quote by Bertrand Russell

“Rousseau created a new responsibility for evil; neither God nor man but human society.”

— Ernst Cassirer

“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.”

— Daniel Silva

“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and bankers reveal…

— Pankaj Mishra

“What’s crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Hitler was a lunatic, a leader whose lowbrow appeal to people’s most selfish, self-pitying emotions and ignorance was an embarrassment for their country.”

— Jessica Shattuck

Hitler is a medicine man type of leader.

— Carl Jung

Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we…

— Randall Jarrell

Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.

— David Hume

Hitler is simply pure reason incarnate

— Rudolf Hess

“he described Hitler as ‘a man of gigantic personality who, however, in the end assumed infernal powers’.”

— Ann Tusa

“ Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the “higher power” of nature.”

— Erich Fromm