What Bertrand Russell thinks about war
British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
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3 dated positions, c. 1917, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsPossessiveness—the passion to have and to hold—is the ultimate source of war, and the foundation of all the ills from which the political world is suffering.
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Their wordsThe punishment of conscientious objectors seems clearly a violation of individual liberty within its legitimate sphere.
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Their wordsThe international authority ought to possess an army and navy, and these ought to be the only army and navy in existence.