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Social Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.…
- Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature.…
- Bolshevism is to be reckoned with Mohammedanism rather than with Christianity and Buddhism. Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a…
- Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul…
- The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an…
- Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
- Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
- The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend upon…
- The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have…
- In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he…
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.…
- Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed;…
- I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is…
More Social Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet