Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / March 2005

Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor
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"All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious
theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is
possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle.
I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of
duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be
dutiful. If you wish to know what men will do, you must know not only,
or principally, their material circumstances, but rather the whole
system of their desires with their relative strengths." Bertrand
Russell, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1950.