A Quote by Bertrand Russell

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Russell
British - Celebrity
May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

Nora Roberts

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

Brian Friel

Irritation is a great source of energy and creativity.

Anita Roddick

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

Joan Didion

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

Bertrand Russell

But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Quite often, ambition operates on a level of irritation. Not even jealousy, just irritation.

Geoff Dyer

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

By poeticizing love, we imagine in those we love virtues that they often do not possess; this then becomes the source of constant mistakes and constant distress.

Anton Chekhov

I believe that every man can multiply his own ability by almost constant wordless realization of his unity with his Source. I have, myself, made that feeling so much a part of me that I actually feel myself to be an extension of the Source; that my works are not my own, but interpretations of this Source.