Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.
Bertrand Russella generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.
Bertrand RussellSelf-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
Bertrand RussellWhat is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
Bertrand Russell