"Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are……" — Dora Russell
"Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
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17 Quotes by Dora Russell
Dora Russell has 17 quotes on this site.
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We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
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Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.
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Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence.…
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only…
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class…
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Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
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If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to…
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We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed…
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Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up…
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We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
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Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation…
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Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who…
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to…
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however…
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and…
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do…
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's…
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to…
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If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal,…
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out…
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