Bertrand Russell Quotes

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.

Bertrand Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

Topics

PowerHistoryMenDriveReligions

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

Andrew Yang

GreatOrganizationStartYouRare

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.

Melody Beattie

LifeNew Year'sGoalsYearYouNew

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Maynard James Keenan

PeopleHurtBecauseArtistsInsane

I think everyone talks about talent. It's really one of the most overused terms. It comes down to, do you play, and do you win? Talent is one factor, but certainly not the only one.

Jeff Van Gundy

TalentWinThinkYouDownPlay

For me, making a record is a vacation. I'd like to do it more often. Just, chances are impossible... It's a very expensive hobby, you know?

Steven Van Zandt

VacationMeImpossibleHobbyYou

I know you can't fight forever, and there's only so long you can do this.

Robbie Lawler

FightLongYouKnowForeverOnly

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

Mike McGavick

ShadowYouUnderstandUpTowerGrew

Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.

Mike McCready

SomeoneYouKnowYoungListenBand

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne

EducationGoodBookTableTrueHand

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

MountainsComputersTelevisionAir

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Broderick Crawford

FatherMotherPerfectAlwaysEven

When will we get a female director-general of the BBC? Where is the colour when you go further up the food chain? It disappears.

Art Malik

FoodYouGoWillColourUp

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