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.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher

Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 2 “The Negative Theory of Education” (1932)
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