Bertrand Russell Quotes
The peculiar importance attached, at present, to adultery is quite irrational... Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. At the time, adultery was actually a criminal offense in England and most States in America
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British Philosopher & Reformer, What I Believe, 1925
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The King abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor. The surface reason was so he could pursue his love for a divorced woman. However, Edward was very sympathetic to and supportive of English and European Fascists like Hitler and WWII with Germany was imminent and the king’s views and relationships would have been very awkward. His younger brother, who became king, was a democrat.
A conservative Calvinist weekly periodical. Just as today, there were few politicians who could stand up to such a test.
Commenting on the Senate debate over the confirmation of John Tower as Secretary of Defense, where the nominee was accused of being a womanizer and a heavy drinker:
This quotation is the basis for the insistence of fundamentalist Muslims on the separation of the sexes, in stores, schools, restaurants. In the most extreme case the Taliban of Afghanistan would not allow female doctors or nurses to treat males or work in a hospital. Women were not even allowed in the hospital and many died of medical neglect.
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.“
