Bertrand Russell Quotes About Survival

• Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Community, Survival, Morality

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.336, Routledge

• The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Odds, Survival

  Interview in "Playboy", 10, No. 3, 42, (March 1963) in "One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture" by Kenneth Rose, (p. 39), 2004.

• Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Believe, Rely Upon

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Edward Egner (1961). “The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”

• To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Personality, Soul, Brain

  Bertrand Russell (1997). “Religion and Science”, p.143, Oxford University Press, USA

• Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Civilization, Long, Psychology

• Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

  Bertrand Russell

  World Government, Survival, Possibility

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