Top 25 Dora Russell Quotes

#1. We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

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#2. 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.

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

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. Comfort is bought at too high a price.

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#8. We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

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#9. 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 ...

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

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#11. Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.

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#12. 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.

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#13. 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.

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#14. The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.

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#15. There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

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#16. What does one do about the dead? They live forever.

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#17. You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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.

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#21. Anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

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#22. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.

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

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#24. Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.

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#25. 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.

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