The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was โgivenโ by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?
Bertrand RussellMost human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
Bertrand RussellFrege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
Bertrand RussellThe fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand RussellI feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.
Bertrand Russell