Bertrand Russell Quotes about Hate

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

Hate, Successful, Hatred

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Happiness, Depressing, Hate

I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Bertrand Russell

Beautiful, Hate, Believe

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

I hate the world and almost all the people in it. I hate the Labour Congress and the journalists who send men to be slaughtered, and the fathers who feel a smug pride when their sons are killed, and even the pacifists who keep saying human nature is essentially good, in spite of all the daily proofs to the contrary. I hate the planet and the human race—I am ashamed to belong to such a species.

Bertrand Russell

Father, Hate, Pride

Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.289, Routledge

I FIND IT SO DIFFICULT NOT TO HATE, WHEN I DO NOT HATE I FEEL WE FEW ARE SO LONELY IN THE WORLD

Bertrand Russell

Lonely, Hate, World

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.

Bertrand Russell

Attitude, Hate, Emotional

Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.34, Courier Corporation

I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.

Bertrand Russell

Hate, Essentials, Vastness

Bertrand Russell (1995). “My Philosophical Development”, p.193, Psychology Press

The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, disguised as morality, restrains in their more spontaneous forms. War has the same merit. You must not kill you neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this hate can be transferred to some foreign nation, against whom all your murderous impulses become patriotic heroism.

Bertrand Russell

Hate, War, Patriotic

I do so hate to leave this world.

Bertrand Russell

Death, Hate, World

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Bertrand Russell

Love, Hate, Men

Bertrand Russell (1972). “Bolshevism: practice and theory”, Ayer Co Pub

A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.

Bertrand Russell

Hate, Philosophy, Stupid

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Bertrand Russell

Depressing, Hate, Thinking

Bertrand Russell (1971). “Ladislas Reymont: Romain Rolland ; Bertrand Russell”

Love can only flourish as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought that it is a duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him or her.

Bertrand Russell

Hate, Long, Way

"Marriage and Morals".

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved. But among ends that can be achieved our choice must be decided by other than purely scientific considerations. If a man were to say, "I hate the human race, and I think it would be a good thing if it were exterminated," we could say, "Well, my dear sir, let us begin the process with you." But this is hardly argument, and no amount of science could prove such a man mistaken.

Bertrand Russell

Hate, Mistake, Science

Bertrand Russell Quotes about Hate

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