Quote by Bertrand Russell
Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in

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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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. – Bertrand Russell

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. – Bertrand Russell

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I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite. – Bertrand Russell

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Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere. – Benjamin F. Wade

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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. – George Washington

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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white worlds definitions. – James A. Baldwin

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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. – Origen

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