 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The most glaringly paradoxical of these consequences is that there can be no ethical reason for preferring one man's conscience to another's. There can of course be non-ethical reasons: if I am a beggar, I shall prefer a conscience that enjoins charity to one that holds it wicked to encourage idleness, and if I am a statesman I shall prefer an opponent whose conscience approves of compromise to one who views every question as a matter of principle.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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