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As people grow more civilized, rewarding good work is far better than punishing bad work
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What Bertrand Russell actually said
- Bertrand Russell British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970)
But as men grow more civilized, incentives based on hope become increasingly preferable to those that are based on fear. It would be far better that men should be rewarded for working well than that they should be punished for working badly.
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↗Political Ideals (1917)gutenberg.org
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