Quote by Bertrand Russell
Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from conventi

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Evolution
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Tradition
category

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Category:
Tradition

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

Category:
Tradition

Im an old-fashioned guy… I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something. – Johnny Depp

Category:
Tradition

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. – James Agee

Category:
Tradition

Random Quotes

C:>COFFEE.COM error. Contact programmer J. Valdez. – Author Unknown

Category:
Coffee

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them. – Phyllis Bottome

Category:
Difficulty

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers. – Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

Category:
History

I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you cant. My attitude is always let it keep rolling. – Terrence Malick

Category:
Attitude