In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others may take from them, than of the joy that they might create in their own lives and in the lives with which they come in contact. It is not so that life should be lived.


Roads to Freedom (ed. Routledge, 2013) - ISBN: 9781135862527

Bertrand Russell Quotes

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others...

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others...

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others...

In the daily lives of most men and women, fear plays a greater part than hope: they are more filled with the thought of the possessions that others...