 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
I cannot admit that a man's conscience is worsened when it becomes blunted by persistent evil doing, so that in the end it no longer protests against his habitual sins. This has the shocking consequence that long-continued sin makes virtue easier, since it diminishes the number of things that conscience forbids. All these paradoxes follow if every man's conscience is the ultimate arbiter of what is right for him.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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