"In my darkest hours, what has saved me again and again is some action of unselfing — some instinctive wakefulness to an aspect of the world other than myself: a helping hand extended to someone else’s struggle, the dazzling galaxy just discovered millions of lightyears away, the cardinal trembling in the tree outside my window."
Bertrand Russell's last message (before his death in 1970) on Israel, the displaced people of Palestine and the subsequent occupation of what remains of their lands.
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I'm a big fan of Bertrand Russell but he is so long winded, I cannot post most of what I find on Mastodon because it is way too many characters, EVEN WITH ALT-TEXT.
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?” ~ Lord Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
🎙️ This year's Reith lectures, a series of four talks by Ben Ansell, Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, will be recorded in London, Berlin, Sunderland and Atlanta.
More about this year's topic and about the history of the lectures which were first recorded in 1948.
The Reith Lectures archive is an extraordinary resource, with recordings and transcripts to download, going back all the way to the very first lectures, given by philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1948.