Radio
Bertrand Russell created these and they weren’t about Radio — but they could be, and we would be better if they were, even more so if they were inviolate.
- Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
- Do not think it worth while to procede by concealing evidence (of failure), which will surely come to light.
- Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
- When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your employees, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
- Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found.
- Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
- Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.
- Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.