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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.


Bertrand Russell

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BERTRAND RUSSELL There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate gov...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe ...
PHILLIP ADAMS The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I remember the philosopher Bertrand Russell was asked why he spent his time protesting against nucle...
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THERESA MAY There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by...
CLIFFORD TRUESDELL There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of font...
SCOTT ADAMS Love cannot remain by itself -- it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action, and that acti...
MOTHER TERESA I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
CARL SANDBERG I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
CARL SANDBURG There is no sanctuary so holy that money cannot profane it, no fortress so strong that money cannot ...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a dut...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
DANIEL WEBSTER I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN So many bus routes come through there, so it can service a vast majority of the West End, and there'...
HERB BRODARICK I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER The idea that you can prevent violent action by banning such images is nonsense.
CHRIS EVANS My perfect day would be to go on a picnic up Mt. Wilson with Christopher Isherwood, Greta Garbo, Ald...
JANET FITCH The vast, vast majority of people have been reached. I cannot look in the crystal ball and say we an...
BEN MALOR The majority is by no means omniscient just because it is the majority. In fact, I've found that the...
J. PAUL GETTY The crux is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
WILLIAM J. BROAD The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
WILLIAM J. BROAD The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a ...
DEREK BOK The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY The vast majority of our customers have no need and no desire to be programming their robots. But th...
HELEN GREINER If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
BERTRAND RUSSEL It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living free...
BERTRAND RUSSELL All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner mom...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from an...
JAMES WHISTLER The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from an...
JAMES WHISTLER There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much diminished by a nice cup of tea
BERNARD-PAUL HEROUX The public would be appalled to know that there are no regulations governing the funeral industry, n...
BOB SMITH The vast majority of businesses really have no idea how much their business is actually worth until ...
ALEX KINDLER It makes a great difference in our feelings towards others if their needs and their joys are on our ...
CHARLES H. BRENT A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
MAHATMA GANDHI You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
SOTONYE ANGA The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no nat...
BEN SHAPIRO We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who partici...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't tru...
CHARLES DICKENS The vast, vast majority of people have been reached.
BEN MALOR Certainly no one would argue that there is a problem with diversity in the newsroom and that the eff...
JACQUELINE SHARKEY It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the la...
JAMES MADISON The vast majority of this is a boondoggle.
JAMES GATTUSO Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its pati...
NAOMI WOLF So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of Ind...
NARENDRA MODI There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
ALBERT CAMUS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't...
CHARLES DICKENS There is no money to be made billing for sending messages to the government.
MICHAEL CORNFIELD Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a ...
JOHN PAUL STEVENS There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY There's no way that a third party wins without being in the presidential debates. I think the va...
GARY JOHNSON By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bu...
ROSALIND WISEMAN We feel that the vast, vast majority of 16-year-olds are able to drive safely.
DAVE DRUKER The vast majority of recent comments by ECB officials showed a true reluctance to intervene,
BOB LYNCH There is no mountain peak that cannot be touched by love.
SORIN CERIN But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
MARTIN MCGUINNESS I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that...
FRANK SINATRA It is certainly the case that the vast majority of endowment funds are restricted for very particula...
DAVID BASS What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to ...
DESMOND TUTU South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is app...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there...
JOHN DELANEY The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion...
F.A. HAYEK Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onb...
DAN BROWN By the time we've made it, we've had it.
MALCOLM FORBES There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
FRANK ABAGNALE The vast majority of that deal was written on my desk.
WILLIAM MOFFITT The vast majority of those involve vehicles that are not equipped with these switches. This is why e...
KATHLEEN VOKES There are no Muslim terrorists. There are terrorists. There are criminals who claim to be Muslims. W...
PAUL HAWKINS Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ...
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Adequate information about the existing environment and about the types of place that it is desirabl...
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and actio...
HARRY S TRUMAN Certainly they would be able to eliminate the vast majority of the headquarters employees.
PAUL ADORNATO For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The federal standards are adopted by the vast majority of the states, so for auto makers to produce ...
BRIAN NEWBACHER You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR It is clear that the vast majority of Sunnis only voted to try to bring that process to a screeching...
WAYNE WHITE There is no dharma greater than a word uttered by a man of conscience; there is no karma greater tha...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no ...
JOHN CONYERS There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
CHARLES M. SCHULZ Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA The vast majority of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, even after interrogation, had no further intel value w...
JANIS KARPINSKI The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Governmen...
JOHN C. CALHOUN In the American South, where I live, Christianity is very much about the Bible. Most Christians come...
BART D. EHRMAN It's an unusual set of circumstances, and the vast majority of asbestos cases are not likely to be i...
DAVID ROSS The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property ...
AVRAM CHOMSKY The country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property ...
AVRAM NOAM CHOMSKY This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE The vast majority of what you see here today, you'll see in the showroom by the end of the year,
WOLFGANG BERNHARD That would be a confidence vote by definition, ... I can tell you where we're going to stand on that...
JACK LAYTON It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...
ROBERTSON DAVIES It is all nonsense, to be sure; and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation...
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TOBA BETA There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

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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 Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can ...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying t...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and...
BERTRAND RUSSELL War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface rela...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
BERTRAND RUSSELL The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ide...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with o...
BERTRAND RUSSELL It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which...
BERTRAND RUSSELL Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not reg...
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