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Bertrand Russell Quotes

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. - Bertrand Russell Quotes

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Source:Letter to Ottoline Morrell (December 17, 1920)
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  • Name: Bertrand Russell
  • Profession: Polymath, Mathematician, Philosopher
  • Born: May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970
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