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A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
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‎"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
- Edward R. Murrow
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the memories of ...
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Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL VAN DOREN
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
CARL CLINTON VAN DOREN
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves
BIBLE
The death of wolves is the safety of the sheep.
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BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An individual human existence should be like a river
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up frie...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which morali...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard su...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are ha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this d...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintell...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Change is one thing, progress is another. Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indub...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One must care about a world one will not see.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he fi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
BERTRAND RUSSEL
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be hap...
BERTRAND RUSSEL
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. [Fr., L'arbre de la liberte ...
BERTRAND BARERE
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux...
BERTRAND BARERE
Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers--(Nation Boutiquiere).
BERTRAND BARERE
Most people would rather die than think: many do.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginar...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the poss...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sin is geographical.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no lon...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to d...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very fe...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way
BERTRAND RUSSELL
What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, pain of love lasts a lifetime.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is off...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of p...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to gro...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
It is only the dead who do not return.
BERTRAND BARERE
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate gov...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape f...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

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