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Quotes from The Right to Be Happy — Dora Russell

1894–1986 England

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It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system; thought and mockery here and now are required to prevent the mechanists from building another.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. We have not yet found the right road to conquering ourselves and our environment.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

To take even this first step towards a happy society is a herculean task. After it has been accomplished, generations to come will see what the creature will do next. We none of us know; and we should be thoroughly on our guard against all those who pretend that they do.

The Right to Be Happy (1927)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dora Russell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.