The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
‘Sceptical Essays’ (1928) ‘Recrudescence of Puritanism’
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
‘Unpopular Essays’ (1950) ‘Outline of Intellectual Rubbish’
The linguistic philosophy, which cares onyl about language, and not about the world, is like
the boy who preferred the clock without the pendulum because, although it no longer told the
time, it went more easily than before and at a more exhilarating pace.
In Ernest Gellner ‘Words and Things’ (1959) introduction
6.105 Dora Russell (Countess Russell) 1894-1986
We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.
‘Hypatia’ (1925) ch. 4
6.106 George William Russell
See AE (1.22) in Volume I
6.107 Lord John Russell 1792-1878
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
Letter to T. Attwood, October 1831, after the rejection in the House of Lords of the Reform Bill (7 October
1831)
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
Greenock, 19 September 1853.
Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its
presence and another by its absence.
Speech to the electors of the City of London, April 1859
A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.
Ascribed
6.108 Sir William Howard Russell 1820-1907
They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
On the Russians charging the British, in ‘The British Expedition to the Crimea’ (1877) p. 156. Russell’s
original dispatch to The Times, 25 October 1854, printed 14 November 1854 read: ‘That thin red streak tipped
with a line of steel’
6.109 Ernest Rutherford (Baron Rutherford of Nelson) 1871-1937
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
In J. B. Birks ‘Rutherford at Manchester’ (1962) p. 108
We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think!
In ‘Bulletin of the Institute of Physics’ (1962) vol. 13, p. 102 (as recalled by R. V. Jones)
6.110 Gilbert Ryle 1900-76