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
- None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
- I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
- Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Best Quotes
- A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
- I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.
- Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
- I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
- Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.
- Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me like I would die for it.
- 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.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.