Quotulatiousness

November 9, 2018

QotD: Puritanism

Filed under: Politics, Quotations — Tags: — Nicholas @ 01:00

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell, “Recrudescence of Puritanism”, 1928.

Related posts:

  1. QotD: American secular puritanism
  2. QotD: The value of education
  3. QotD: Teenage sex
  4. QotD: “Hegel is really interesting”
  5. QotD: Epicurus on the ethics of pleasure

No Comments

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post.

Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.

Powered by WordPress