Quotes from C S Lewis

[head-in-sand]

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences.

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For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

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C S Lewis
Politician, Theologist, Writer, academic

 

[Boliao]

Hear hear! Well quoted.

Especially true when the government consist of morons and imbeciles who think they know the lives of common men. When intelligence is measured by the amount of text memorized and success is measured by the size of the wallet.