Posted on 01/03/2011 9:49:33 AM PST by Bigtigermike
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely 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 own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
- C. S. Lewis, The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment, 1930
Ha! My bad! I’m still living in 2010!
The most dangerous phrase in the English Language — “There oughtta be a law....”
Brilliant!
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."
“omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Is there any better description of the nanny-statists than this? I don’t think so.
>>The most dangerous phrase in the English Language — “There oughtta be a law....”<<
Followed by (in order):
“I am from the Government and I am here to Help.”
“I am a democrat.”
One of my favorites. Thank you... I now have the rest of it.
“Ominpotent moral busybodies” describes Nancy Pelosi without any morals!
Excellent quote from Lewis, & one Christians & Conservatives should heed as well. It’s almost impossible to talk to liberals/lefties because they immediately start screaming that we want to take away their rights (abortion) or make them live the way we want them to (no drugs, no living in sin, etc.) We have to realize we can’t make others do what we want, either.
But the sheer superlative nature of the quote gives you automatic pardon for the wrong date. ;D
Thank you
And yet, I wish America would and could return to a time when we lived under omnipotent moral busybodies instead of the robber barons we have selected and elected as our leaders.
I know—the thinkers who did just that!!!!!! Wish the so called “intellectuals” in the universities were even a forth like this great man. We have way too few people alive today with such a profound mind.
bookmark.
C S Lewis had a way of cutting to the heart of the matter. Probably my all time favorite writer. I had never read a more shrewd or powerful Christian apologetic than “Mere Chrisrianity”
Yep.....Sarah is an idiot for liking an brilliant intellectual who was......oops! Libs get it wrong once again!
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”
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