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Dora Russell Biography

Dora, Countess Russell (née Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the eminent philosopher Bertrand Russell.

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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.

Animal, Lying, Nature, Path

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.

Dictator, Oligarchs, Run, Running, Society, Successfully

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Conquer, Guidance, Learning, Love, Our World, Wisdom

Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Children, Council, Government, School, Young

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.

Long, Men, Philosophy, Ruled

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Answers, Competing, Industrialism, Machines, Prayer, Prayers

Comfort is bought at too high a price.

Bought, Comfort, High, Price

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.

Knowledge, Nearer, Our World, Quest, Quests

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.

Car, Look, Needs, Principles, Question, Sets

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.

Art, Children, Current, Emotions, Left, Mean

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.

Authoritarian, Early, Hymns, People, Spring, System

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.

Battleships, Creative, Hatred, Instincts, Machine, Machines

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.

Children, Common, Everyone, Harm, Knowing, Motherhood

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Armies, Army, Law, Mark, Marriage, Police

What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them.

Business, Children, Nurturing, Power, Women, Work

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.

Adult, Adults, Children, Smaller, Use

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Humanity, Let, Perfection, Seek, Survival, Survive

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?

Fighting, Flags, Men, Perpetual, Sex, Though

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.

Birth Control, Established, Firsts, Poor, Question, Women

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.

Capitalism, Common, Expect, Labour, Might, Party

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