0 ratings (0.0 avg)
0 reviews

Atondro Mahmud

Add friend

Atondro’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (0)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (0)

Stats | More…

Atondro’s Quotes

“জ্বলন্ত আগুনে যে পোকারা ঝাঁপ দিয়ে মরে তাতে কি আগুনের অপরাধ আছে? কারণ পোকাদের ভাগ্যই আগুনে পুড়ে মরা।”
― Ahmed Sofa, অর্ধেক নারী অর্ধেক ঈশ্বরী

16 likes

“How pleasant a world would be in which no man was allowed to operate on the Stock Exchange unless he could pass and examination in economics and Greek poetry, and in which politicians were obliged to have a competent knowledge of history and modern novels.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

16 likes

“Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' But I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached. I hope that, after reading the following pages, the leaders of the YMCA will start a campaign to induce good young men to do nothing. If so, I shall not have lived in vain.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

10 likes