Amanda M.

“The whole of the controlling purpose is concentrated in the capitalist; the purpose of the wage-earner is not the produce, but the wages, The purpose of the capitalist is to secure the maximum of work for the minimum of wages; the purpose of the wage-earner is to secure the maximum of wages for the minimum of work. A system involving this essential conflict of interests cannot be expected to work smoothly or successtully, or to produce a community with any pride in efficiency.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

“Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups. It is this motive, in the main, which determines the subjects taught, the knowledge offered and the knowledge withheld, and also decides what mental habits the pupils are expected to acquire Hardly anything is done to foster the inward growth of mind and spirit; in fact, those who have had most education are very often atrophied in their mental and spiritual life, devoid of impulse, and possessing only certain mechanical aptitudes which take the place of living thought.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

“In internal as in external affairs, the worst enemy of freedom is war.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight

“Many men, when they are in love, are more interested in their own emotion than in the object of their love; such love does not lead to any essential union, but leaves fundamental separateness undiminished. As soon as the emotion grows less vivid the experience has served its purpose, and there seems no motive for prolonging it.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight