 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, 1954,pt.2,chap.2: Politically Important Desires (Nobel Prize Acceptant Speech
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Usually, there is a limit to vanity. However, as one gains power, that limit recedes more and more. The longer a leader of a country is in power, the more his or her vanity expands (bubbles) and, in many cases, that bubble will eventually burst. In the case of then Prime Minister Abe, it ended in an unfortunate way. Namely, a young man tormented by the Unification Church killed Prime Minister Abe with a gun, believing that he had deep ties to the Unification Church. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)