Dora Russell
Dora Russell
Dora, Countess Russellwas a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth3 April 1894
knowledge our-world quests
We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.
wisdom offering guidance
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
spring people democracy
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
marriage army law
Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
wisdom offering our-world
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
lying animal path
Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature.
agreement average ancient
anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.
sex fighting men
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting?
creative hatred machines
I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts ...
philosophy men long
Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
running society dictator
Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
comfort
Comfort is bought at too high a price.
religious sex teaching
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
party might common
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.