Bertrand Russell Quotes About Politics
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Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?
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What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
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The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them.
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth.
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You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors.
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