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War Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- 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 the war will last 30…
- Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
- And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of…
- Against the vast majority of my countrymen, even at this moment, in the name of humanity and civilization, I protest against our share in the…
- At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed…
- War...seems a mere madness, a collective insanity.
- I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is…
- Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive…
- There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second that…
- The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to…
- Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of…
- There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or…
- With civilized men..., it is, I think, chiefly love of excitement which makes the populace applaud when war breaks out; the emotion is exactly the…
- War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
- Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- War grows out of ordinary human nature.
- You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step…
- One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of…
- Religion prevents our children from having a rational education; religion prevents us from removing the fundamental causes of war; religion prevents us from teaching the…
- Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was that women would tend to be pacifists. During the war…
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood