In the great depression, things could only be set right by causing the idle plant to work again . . . Roosevelt . . . spent billions of public money and created a huge public debt, but by so doing he revived production and brought his country out of the depression. Businessmen, who in spite of such a sharp lesson continued to believe in old-fashioned economics, were infinitely shocked, and although Roosevelt saved them from ruin, they continued to curse him and to speak of him as 'the madman in the White House.' . . . [It's one more] striking example of inability to learn from experience.
Bertrand RussellReligion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand RussellIt is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Bertrand RussellThe fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.
Bertrand Russell