• There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.

    Bertrand Russell: There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.540, Routledge