Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Quote by Bertrand Russell
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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Bertrand Russell Quotes
- Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- 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.
- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
- 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.
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Best Quotes
- When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, 'Wow, they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
- My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
- There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
- The happiness of society is the end of government.
- The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.