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Quote by Bertrand Russell
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act human

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. – Bertrand Russell

Other quotes by Bertrand Russell

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. – Bertrand Russell

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

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Other Quotes from
Fear
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In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile. – Elinor Wylie

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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. – Emile M. Cioran

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Fear

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. – Martha Beck

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Fear

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. – Wilhelm Reich

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