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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Liberty, Principles
Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”

Admit at least one painful truth to yourself every day. Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not immeasurably superior to all your friends. Exercises of this sort, prolonged through several years, will at last enable you to admit facts without flinching, and will, in so doing, free you from the empire of fear over a very large field.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Years, Empires
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.173, Routledge

In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.

Bertrand Russell
Country, Exercise, Organization

I think people who are unhappy are always proud of being so, and therefore do not like to be told that there is nothing grand about their unhappiness. A man who is melancholy because lack of exercise has upset his liver always believes that it is the loss of God, or the menace of Bolshevism, or some such dignified cause that makes him sad. When you tell people that happiness is a simple matter, they get annoyed with you.

Bertrand Russell
Believe, Loss, Exercise
Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.440, Psychology Press

The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Bertrand Russell
Happiness, Exercise, Joy
Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

We know that the exercise of virtue should be its own reward, and it seems to follow that the enduring of it on the part of the patient should be its own punishment.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Punishment, Rewards
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.91, Psychology Press

So in everything: power lies with those who control finance, not with those who know the matter upon which the money is to be spent. Thus, the holders of power are, in general, ignorant and malevolent, and the less they exercise their power the better.

Bertrand Russell
Lying, Exercise, Ignorant
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.153, Psychology Press

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Principles, Modern Life

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Bertrand Russell
Exercise, Skills, Satisfaction
Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.104, Routledge

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