31+ Dora Russell Quotes On Education, Friendship And Work

Dora Russell was an English celebrity known for her work as a feminist, pacifist, and writer. She was a member of the British Bloomsbury Group and was married to the philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was also a campaigner for women's rights and a vocal critic of the British education system. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dora Russell on education, love, friendship.

Top 10 Dora Russell Quotes

1. Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.
2. Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
3. If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.
4. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
5. We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
6. Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.
7. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.
8. Because men have so long ruled the world, it does not follow that the philosophy by which they have ruled it is the correct one.
9. Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.
10. I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

Dora Russell Short Quotes

• What does one do about the dead? They live forever.
• Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
• Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs.
• Comfort is bought at too high a price.
• Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Dora Russell Quotes About Children

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. Nor should we represent motherhood as something so common and easy that everyone can go through it without harm or suffering and rear her children competently and well. — Dora Russell

What a denial of our humanity that at the centers of power, where decisions are made, there is no room for nurturing, for love, and children. There is more to life than the 'inhuman' work place. It is terrible that many men do not know that: it is a tragedy if women follow them. — Dora Russell

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. — Dora Russell

We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them. — Dora Russell

Dora Russell Famous Quotes And Sayings

The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else. — Dora Russell

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher. — Dora Russell

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. — Dora Russell

There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex. — Dora Russell

I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags without doing any of the fighting. From a woman such words, though displaying inexperience, might come with dignity; from a man they are an unforgivable, intolerable insult. What is man's part in sex but a perpetual waving of flags and blowing of trumpets and avoidance of the fighting? — Dora Russell

The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more. — Dora Russell

You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College. — Dora Russell

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. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education. — Dora Russell

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all. — Dora Russell

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects. — Dora Russell

Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration. — Dora Russell

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system. — Dora Russell

Life Lessons by Dora Russell

Dora Russell was a British feminist, activist, and writer who advocated for women's rights, education reform, and world peace. She believed that education was the key to creating a more just and equitable society, and she worked tirelessly to promote this idea. Through her example, we can learn the importance of standing up for what you believe in and striving for a better world.