“Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be made like this?”
In a letter to his wife Clemmie, during the build up to World War I.
Early career years (1898–1929)
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965Related quotes
As quoted in "Antoni Tapies" by Serafin Garcia Ibanez in the UNESCO Courier (June 1994) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1310/is_1994_June/ai_15630919/print?tag=artBody;col1.
1991 - 2000
“Everything can tend toward diminishing returns and unsustainability, […] even in the short term.”
Source: The Long Emergency (2005), Chapter 7, p. 240.
Letter to his mother, written from the University of Pennsylvania (12 February 1904), published in The Selected Letters of William Carlos Williams (1957) edited by John C. Thirlwall, p. 5
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Quoted in "Speeches and Writings: Leaders of the World" - Page 186 - by Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko - Political Science - 1984
Book 4; Universal Love III
Mozi
Context: Now, as to universal love and mutual aid, they are beneficial and easy beyond a doubt. It seems to me that the only trouble is that there is no superior who encourages it. If there is a superior who encourages it, promoting it with rewards and commendations, threatening its reverse with punishments, I feel people will tend toward universal love and mutual aid like fire tending upward and water downwards — it will be unpreventable in the world.
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood's Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7
1950s
