For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race. Bertrand Russell
They want to be natural, the anti-social little beasts. They just don't realize that everyone's good depends on everyone's cooperation.
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Richard Adams
Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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Anonymous
- What is a Socialist?- That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty…. The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything...
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G.k. Chesterton
You rich people are all the same. You couldn't care less about the other half of the world. They can all starve to death for all you care!
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Sally Wentworth
More Quotes By Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
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. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean...
