Bertram Russell

Quotes from the Elite: Bertrand Russell




Have you read a Brave New World? In a speech Aldous Huxley gave at UC Berkley, he went public with the fact that the elite hired him to write the novel based on what type of society the elite wanted to create - that consisting of a race of humans so completely enslaved whose actions - even their thoughts - are completely controlled by technologies that they are literal mindless robots. These quotes from Bertrand Russell give you a glimpse of what these "people" (?) have in store for us - what the elite want and are working towards for humanity:



"Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so."

-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953



"Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers

and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt

of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of

sheep against the practice of eating mutton."

*- Bertrand Russell, "The Impact of Science on Society", 1953, pg 49-50*



"In like manner, the scientific rulers will provide one kind of education

for ordinary men and women, and another for those who are to become holders

of scientific power. Ordinary men and women will be expected to be docile,

industrious, punctual, thoughtless, and contented. Of these qualities,

probably contentment will be considered the most important. In order to

produce it, all the researches of psycho-analysis, behaviourism, and

biochemistry will be brought into play.... All the boys and girls will learn

from an early age to be what is called 'co-operative,' i.e., to do exactly

what everybody is doing. Initiative will be discouraged in these children,

and insubordination, without being punished, will be scientifically trained

out of them."



"On those rare occasions, when a boy or girl who has passed the age at which

it is usual to determine social status shows such marked ability as to seem

the intellectual equal of the rulers, a difficult situation will arise,

requiring serious consideration. If the youth is content to abandon his

previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers,

he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable

solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly

conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the

lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to

spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they

will not shrink from performing it."

*- Bertrand Russell, "The Scientific Outlook", 1931*