"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
― Bertrand Russell
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― Bertrand Russell
More From Bertrand Russell
- "I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite."
- "Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."
- "Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives."
More In Freedom
- "Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."― Frederick Douglass
- "One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it."― Ferdinand Mount
- "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."― George Washington