Bertrand Russell Quotes about Prejudice

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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

Time, Prejudice, Authority

Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell Volume 29: Détente or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.152, Routledge

Education, and the life of the mind generally, is a matter in which individual initiative is the chief thing needed; the function of the state should begin and end with insistence on some kind of education, and, if possible, a kind which promotes mental individualism, not a kind which happens to conform to the prejudices of government officials.

Bertrand Russell

Government, Mind, Prejudice

Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press