Bertrand Russell Quotes About Poverty

• Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Children, Pain

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.3, Routledge

• But courage in fighting is by no means the only form, nor perhaps even the most important. There is courage in facing poverty, courage in facing derision, courage in facing the hostility of one's own herd. In these, the bravest soldiers are often lamentably deficient. And above all there is the courage to think calmly and rationally in the face of danger, and to control the impulse of panic fear or panic rage.

  Bertrand Russell

  Courage, Mean, Fighting

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.364, Routledge

• There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, World, Poverty

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

• If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument... The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our imagination.

  Bertrand Russell

  Ideas, Imagination, Religion

  "Why I Am Not a Christian". "The First-cause Argument". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1927.

• It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Enemy

• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Logic

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

• There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and tortures which have been due to men's hostility to their fellow men.

  Bertrand Russell

  War, Men, Mastery

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.81, Routledge

• ... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Loneliness, World

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.9, Routledge

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