 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
The man who has learnt to obey will either have lost all personal initiative or will have become so filled with rage against the authorities that his initiative will have become destructive and cruel.
Source： Bertrand Russell: On being good (written in Nov. 18, 1931 and pub. in Mortals and Others, v.1, 1975.
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Deputy Governor Katayama, a subordinate of Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito, was the boss of a certain Hyogo Prefectural People's Bureau Chief who committed suicide. Katayama and a certain Prefectural People's Bureau Chief used to be relatively close, but after Saito became Prefectural Governor, the relationship seems to have turned into a power-harassing one. Russell also states as follows.
【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.】
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