The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

enterprises cannot be managed in this way. When a
train has to be started at a given moment it is
impossible to inspire the porters, the enginedriver,
and the signalman by means of barbaric
music. They must each do their job merely because
it has to be done; their motive, that is to say, is
indirect: they have no impulse towards the activity,
but only towards the ultimate reward of the
activity. A great deal of social life has the same
defect. People converse with each other, not from
any wish to do so, but because of some ultimate
benefit that they hope to derive from cooperation.
At every moment of life the civilised man is
hedged about by restrictions of impulse: if he
happens to feel cheerful he must not sing or dance
in the street, while if he happens to feel sad he
must not sit on the pavement and weep, for fear of
obstructing pedestrian traffic. In youth his liberty is
restricted at school, in adult life it is restricted
throughout his working hours. All this makes zest
more difficult to retain, for the continual restraint
tends to produce weariness and boredom.
Nevertheless, a civilised society is impossible