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"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

Bertrand Russell on Society

More quotes about Society

  • "You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

  • "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Society

  • "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Jiddu Krishnamurti on Society

  • "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Society

  • "There is more to life than increasing its speed."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Society

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."

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