 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
Adults who achieve anything of value have seldom been 'co-operative' children. As a rule, they have liked solitude: they have tried to slink into a corner with a book and have been happiest when they could escape the notice of their barbarian contemporaries.
Source: 'Of co-operation' in: Mortals and Others; Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.1.
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Being ‘co-operative’ is not a bad thing. It is just that ‘it is not good to co-operate when it is better not to co-operate.’ Any government likes its people to be co-operative with the government. If they are insensitive, they tend to be blind to the government's unfavourable intentions and co-operate with ‘national policy’. Reporters belonging to press clubs (i.e. the media) also tend to be co-operative, so we, the public, need to be very careful.