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Bertrand Russell Quotes

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Power Beautiful Slavery Machines

Even to build a vote bank, you need to tackle the problems people face. Rural jobs that stop migration to cities, road networks for better connectivity, and a sense of security get people to vote for you.

Jitin Prasada

People Road Problems Face Better

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

Jerzy Kosinski

Time Travel Me I Can Create Why

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

Melville Fuller

Winter Mother Children Bird Go Nest

Checking email every 45 seconds is not only compulsive, it's presumptuous. It suggests a belief that anyone who sends us a message needs us to read it immediately, even if the message is from SkyMall telling us our Bigfoot Garden Yeti statue has shipped.

Meghan Daum

Garden Belief Email Statue Us Only

Email will probably be around for many decades to come. It's hard to say what will happen 20 years from now, but email has been around for decades, and it will likely be around for decades more.

Stewart Butterfield

Now Say Will More Hard Email

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution - I think then as a society we're in better shape. I hope people are inspired to be the best.

Rob Morrow

Hope Best People Ambition Society

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Ruth Benedict

Eyes Man World Thinking Looks Set

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

Louis MacNeice

God Men I Am Thank God Thinking

If you publish a scientific paper it is very hard to start a nationwide debate about something. If you do this in a movie, you can start a debate. We like to create a bridge between those two worlds - film and science.

Jose Padilha

Science Bridge Start You Create Two

If our values are worth anything, we should stand up for them and live by them, both within Britain and across the world.

Deeyah Khan

Live World Stand Up Stand Values Up

I have done well out of TV, but not well enough to buy football clubs. I'm not sure it's ever a way to make money.

Clive Anderson

Money Football Enough Done Way Out

India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.

Aravind Adiga

Great Broken World Internet Wall