 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Many more nations have been brought to destruction by fear of change than by love of it. No nation can long flourish unless it tolerates exceptional individuals, whose behavior is not exactly like that of their neighbors. Every one knows that men who achieve great things in art or literature or science are apt, in youth, to be eccentric; when eccentricity in youth is not tolerated, there will be little of great achievement among adult men and women.
Source: How to Read and Understanding History; the past as the key to the future.(Girard, kansas, Haldeman-Julius, 1943, 24 p. 22 cm.)
Repr. in: Understanding History, and Other Essays, 1957.
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