Bertrand Russell Quotes

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy. And that's how I have to deal with it.

The tragedy of civil wars in countries like Angola and Mozambique is that they left many civilians maimed. Poverty is the reason HIV/AIDS spread so rapidly in the African townships and slums. Poverty is the real killer.

So it's gonna be forever
Or it's gonna go down in flames.
You can tell me when it's over
If the high was worth the pain.
Got a long list of ex-lovers,
They'll tell you I'm insane.
'Cause you know I love the players,
And you love the game.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

I encouraged the leadership in its time of weakness. Now that they are strong, I'm allowed not to applaud. If a Palestinian state is established, I will be in the opposition. That's my natural place.

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet
Then you would know I've completely lost it
Is he nuts? No he's insane!

If the Zionist aggressions do not stop, the hands of all parties in the region are on the trigger.

It's a tragedy that a lot of people know more about Shakespeare than about Cao Xueqin.

Gaza is being transformed as we speak from what a former British Prime Minister once called the world’s largest open-air prison into the world’s largest open-air death camp.

I think she is an example for a lot of women who are discouraged by the culture because it does not reward you.

When you face your fear, you become familiar with it, and familiarity makes it lose its meaning, loosen its grip - fear ceases to be fear.

It is doubly chimerical to build peace on economic foundations which, in turn, rest on the systematic cultivation of greed and envy, the very forces which drive men into conflict.

It was his belief that a witty answer turneth away wrath and that the oil of reason should always be poured on troubled waters.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.