Quote by Bertrand Russell
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same se

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. – Bertrand Russell

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The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. – Bertrand Russell

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Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. – Bertrand Russell

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Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they cant control. – Michael Bloomberg

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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been. – Hannah Arendt

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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. – Albert Einstein

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If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured. – Stendhal

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