Bertrand Russell Quotes

Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

Bertrand Russell

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• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Men
  • Very
  • Other

• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• I want to stop transforming and just start being.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Start

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Amazing
  • Special
  • Behind

• I'm a lot less concerned with Bill Clinton's escapades decades ago than I am with Hillary Clinton's consistently wrong record when it comes to foreign policy, when it comes to domestic policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Wrong
  • Policy
  • Hillary Clinton

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Think Big

• When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Day
  • Water
  • Person

• We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Challenge

• Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Mistake

• While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Happy

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
  • Art
  • Lies
  • Own

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

  

  Waka Flocka Flame
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• Most bands don't make it past two albums and tours, if that. We pulled it off, and everybody's been happy and cool, but we got to the point where we knew it was time to take a break.

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Past

• The man who buries his house in the sand and digs it up again, each evening, learns to put it together quickly and just as quickly to take it apart. My parents sleep like children in the dark. I am too far to hear them breathe.

  

  Agha Shahid Ali
  • House
  • Parents
  • Buries

• Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

  

  B. B. King
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I was totally delighted, interested in, and amused by my stint on 'Voyager.'

  

  Joel Grey

• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Women
  • Black
  • Strong

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women