Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
- I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- 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.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I don't feel restless, I just like to travel.
- While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
- Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.
- Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
- The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
- Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
- The silent lion hunts a game whereas the roaring lion never
- I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.
- You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.