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Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell · c. 1918

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A social system should be judged at least as much by its effects outside economics and politics as inside them

It is by its effects outside economics and politics, at least as much as by effects inside them, that a social system should be judged.

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  1. It is by its effects outside economics and politics, at least as much as by effects inside them, that a social system should be judged.
  2. The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

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