Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell
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More quotes by Bertrand Russell
- To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
- It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
- Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.