 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Protestants were thus led to revive an opinion already to be found in the Prophets and the New Testament, to the effect that God instructs each man's conscience as to what is right and what is wrong. There is therefore no need of an external ethical authority: nay, more, it is sin to obey such an authority when its behests go against the individual conscience. . ... But it has failed disastrously to supply a new moral basis for social coherence in place of the old basis which it has destroyed.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 1
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