#philosophy
You can’t kill a Thought.
“You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought.
You may put a man to death because he loves his fellow-men, but you will not by so doing acquire the love which made his happiness.
Force is impotent in such matters; it is only as regards material goods that it is effective.
For this reason the men who believe in force are the men whose thoughts and desires are preoccupied with material goods.“
– Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals (1917).
