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Would Be Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
- I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include…
- Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that…
- But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is…
- Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they…
- Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such…
- If two hitherto rival football teams, under the influence of brotherly love, decided to co-operate in placing the football first beyond one goal and then…
- Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they…
- My first advice on how not to grow old would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
- Some `advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if…
- I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in…
- The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for…
- If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount…
- 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…
- If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would…
- The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.
- The governors of the world believe, and have always believed, that virtue can only be taught by teaching falsehood, and that any man who knew…
- You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two…
- An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius