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
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.
birth-control firsts poor
Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
children motherhood knowing
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well.
forever doe live-forever
What does one do about the dead? They live forever.
prayer answers machines
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.
car needs nuclear
One of the problems with industrialism is that it's based on the premise of more and more. It has to keep expanding to keep going. More and more television sets. More and more cars. More and more steel, and more and more pollution. We don't question whether we need any more or what we'll do with them. We just have to keep on making more and more if we are to keep going. Sooner or later it's going to collapse. ... Look what we have done already with the principle of more and more when it comes to nuclear weapons.
art children mean
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.
christian stupid fighting
The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.
children use violence
If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.