Bertrand Russell Quotes
It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word.
Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. George Allen & Unwin, 1929, p. 92.
In 1877 Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh attempted to publish The Fruits of Philosophy in Britain. It was a book on Birth Control. The two were immediately arrested and charged with publishing an ‘obscene’ book. Gifford was the Public Prosecutor. The authors were convicted and sentenced to 6 months in prison. However, they appealed and were exonerated in the appeal. The case was good for Gifford who went on to become Lord Chancellor of Britain. The trial was a strong motivator for Annie Besant to have a very activist career thereafter.
Erdogan, though a very successful politician, was not a very sophisticated or well educated man. He appealed to the poorer, more Islamic, poorly educated, rural population, and while this statement, among others, made him a laughing stock and disgrace to more sophisticated Turks and to most of the industrialized world. While many people tend to believe that modern TC programming weakens traditional morals and norms, the thought that TV could induce nymphomania, is itself laughable. And to argue that girls should not laugh in public is extreme, even for most Muslims of the world.
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS was a British polymath, philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his “rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West.“
