“Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.” Bertrand Russell HatePowerSlave
“Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.” Bertrand Russell Change
“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.” Bertrand Russell DeathSlaveTime
“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.” Bertrand Russell Universe
“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.” Bertrand Russell
“With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.” Bertrand Russell MadnessMean