 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Education, marriage, and religion are essentially creative, yet all three have been vitiated by the intrusion of possessive motives. ... The creative impulses in different men are essentially harmonious, since what one man creates cannot be a hindrance to what another is wishing to create. It is the possessive impulses that involve conflict. ... Education and social institutions ought to be made such as to strengthen the impulses which harmonize in different men, and to weaken those that involve conflict.
Source: Bertrand Russell : Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1916, chapter 8: What we can do.