Also a Man for All Seasons !
~ By TPO ~
From the mind of Bertrand Russell ...
~ Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
~ I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
~ If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
~ 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 has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
~ It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
~ Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
~ Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
~ Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
~ One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
~ Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
~ Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
~ Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
~ The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
~ The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
~ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~ To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
~ To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
~ To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
~ War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
~ We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
~ Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
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