Bertrand Russell Quotes About Liberty

• War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

  Bertrand Russell

  Peace, Military, War

• 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”

• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotic

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

• Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

  Bertrand Russell

  Liberty, Littles, Too Much

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Authority and the Individual”, p.44, Routledge

• Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

  Bertrand Russell

  Sweet, War, Political

• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  Bertrand Russell

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Government

  "Sceptical Essays". Ch. 13: Freedom in Society. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1928.

• Boys and girls should be taught respect for each other's liberty... and that jealousy and possessiveness kill love.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Girl, Boys

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “What I Believe”, p.33, Routledge

• Liberty is the right to do what I like; licence, the right to do what you like.

  Bertrand Russell

  Liberty, License

  "Fact and Fiction".

• The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

  Bertrand Russell

  Justice, Liberty, Needs

  Bertrand Russell (2006). “Political Ideals”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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