Bertrand Russell Quotes
Power may be defined as the production of intended effects
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British Philosopher & Reformer, 1938
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In a variant of Lord Acton’s famous quotation {292904} Caro focused on what people did with power once they had achieved it. This, he believed, revealed character.
after Isabella’s & Ferdinand’s death. When he was Viceroy after the monarchs, he put down an attempt by some of the nobles to gain control when they asked by what authority he functioned, now that the monarchs who appointed him were dead.
Mytilene was at war with Athens. Pittacus suggested that instead of the armies fighting, the war should be decided by a battle between him and the Athenian General who accepted. Pittacus won and was the Ruler of Athens, where he became quite popular. He wrote all his laws and decrees in poetry. He resigned after 10 years. He was considered one of the 7 great Greek Sages.
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.“
