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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

Bertrand Russell
Power, Men, Religion
The New York Herald-Tribune Magazine, March 6, 1938.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell
Power, Hatred, Idealism And Realism
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.478, Psychology Press

Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

Bertrand Russell
Power, Vanity, Omnipotence
Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.449, Routledge

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

Bertrand Russell
Science, Power, Energy
Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.4, Psychology Press

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.

Bertrand Russell
Power, Thinking, Technique
Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.164, Routledge

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell
Beautiful, Power, Machines
Sceptical Essays (1928) "Machines and Emotions"

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