 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The submissive lose initiative, both in thought and action; moreover, the anger generated by the feeling of being thwarted tends to find an outlet in bullying those who are weaker. That is why tyrannical institutions are self-perpetuating.
Source: Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness, 1935, chap. 12: Education and Discipline
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Russell illustrates this tendency more clearly with the following statement from one boy.
「I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.]
(Source： Education and the Social Order, 1932, p.32)