Quote by Bertrand Russell
Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the m

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. – Bertrand Russell

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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

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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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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. – Lord Chesterfield

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Novelties please less than they impress. – Byron, Don Juan, 1824

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The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. – Ellen Glasgow

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Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty. – Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Man, 1951

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