 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
People sitting next to each other in a bus or a suburban train usually do not speak to each other, but if something alarming occurs, such as an air raid or even an unusually thick fog, the strangers at once begin to feel each other to be friends and converse without restraint. This sort of behaviour illustrates the oscillation between the private and the social parts of human nature. It is because we are not completely social that we have need of ethics to suggest purposes, and of moral codes to inculcate rules of action.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), introduction
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