Bertrand Russell Quotes
Many a marriage hardly differs from prostitution, except being harder to escape from.
The sexual behavior of President Clinton with a White House intern had started a sequence of events and investigations, eventually leading to an impeachment inquiry. The Republican House Speaker, Newt Gingrich, resigned (later admitting that he was having his own adulterous affair with a member of his staff). Henry Hyde, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee handling the impeachment hearings, admitted to adulterous conduct and fathering an illegitimate child. Livingston was then selected by the Republicans to be House Speaker. He then shocked the country with this announcement, and refused the Speaker’s post and then resigned as a member of Congress. The impeachment was voted by the House on a partisan vote, but failed in the Senate.
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.“
