One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: expression thought rationality freedom-of-expression experts
The only kind of appeal that wins any instinctive response in party politics is an appeal to hostile feeling; the men who perceive the need of cooperation are powerless. Until education has been directed for a generation into new channels, and the Press has abandoned incitements to hatred, only harmful policies have any chance of being adopted in practice by our present political methods. But there is no obvious means of altering education and the Press until our political system is altered. From this dilemma there is no issue by means of ordinary action, at any rate for a long time to come. The best that can be hoped, it seems to me, is that we should, as many of us as possible, become political skeptics, rigidly abstaining from belief in the various attractive party programmes that are put before us from time to time.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: politics rationality politicians
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out. I do not believe that, on the balance, religious belief has been a force for good. Although I am prepared to admit that in certain times and places it has had some good effects, I regard it as belonging to the infancy of human reason, and to a stage of development which we are now outgrowing.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: religion rationality beliefs
In science, an observer states his results along with the “probable error”; but who ever heard of a theologian or a politician stating the probable error in his dogmas, or even admitting that any error is conceivable? That is because in science, where we approach nearest to real knowledge, a man can safely rely on the strength of his case, whereas, where nothing is known, blatant assertion and hypnotism are the usual ways of causing others to share our beliefs. If the fundamentalist thought they had a good case against evolution, they would not make the teaching of it illegal.
Bertrand RussellThe objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: deception reason propaganda bourgeoisie
Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion is certainly right, and to judge men by their quality rather than by their consonance with preconceptions.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: truth learning subjectivity rationality evidence objectivity
No man is fit to educate unless he feels each pupil an end in himself, with his own rights and his own personality, not merely a piece in a jigsaw puzzle, or a soldier in a regiment, or a citizen in a State. Reverence for human personality is the beginning of wisdom, in every social question but above all in education.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: education
No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russellالليبرالية ليست مذهب في التصرف. هي في الواقع، تعارض المذاهب. لكن الموقف الليبرالي لا يقول أنه يجب معارضة السلطة. انها تقول فقط يجب أن تكون حر لمعارضة السلطة، وهو شيء مختلف تماما. جوهر النظرة الليبرالية في المجال الفكري هو الاعتقاد بأن المناقشة الموضوعية هو شيء مفيد وأن الانسان يجب أن يكون حر لمناقشة أي شيء إذا كان يمكنه أن يدعم التساؤل بحجج قوية. أما الرأي المعارض، الذي يمارس من قبل أولئك الذين لا يمكن أن تسميتهم أحرار، هو ان الحقيقة معروفة بالفعل وأن مناقشتها هو بالضرورة عمل تخريبي. "- برتراند راسل في" أفضل رد على التعصب الليبرالي "التي نشرت في مجلة نيويورك تايمز (1951)
Bertrand RussellSo long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it.
Bertrand RussellStichwörter: progress morality society ethics sorrow duty
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