 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Another thing that honour forbids is abjectness in submission to unjust authority, for example in currying favour with an invading enemy. To come to smaller matters, betraying secrets and reading other people’s letters are felt to be dishonourable actions. When the conception of honour is freed from aristocratic insolence and from proneness to violence, something remains which helps to preserve personal integrity and to promote mutual trust in social relations. I should not wish this legacy of the age of chivalry to be wholly lost to the world.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 2
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