While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
Bertrand RussellEducation, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.
Bertrand RussellLove should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Bertrand RussellIf we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.
Bertrand RussellFrom that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins. To take into the inmost shrine of the soul the irresistible forces whose puppets we seem to be - Death and change, the irrevocableness of the past, and the powerlessness of Man before the blind hurry of the universe from vanity to vanity - to feel these things and know them is to conquer them.
Bertrand Russell