Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Bertrand Russell

1. Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

2. Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

3. Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

4. It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

5. 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.

6. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

7. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

8. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

9. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

10. With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

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