Famous Quotes

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

Bertrand Russell on Men

More quotes about Men

• "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

  Frederick Douglass on Men

• "I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

  Anais Nin on Men

• "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."

  Oscar Wilde on Men

• "Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

  Confucius on Men

• "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Men

More quotes by Bertrand Russell

• "To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."

• "It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion."

• "Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."

• "Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself."

• "Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change."