Posted on 11/18/2018 1:06:19 PM PST by SantosLHalper
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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."
Lewis is just a dead white European. What did he know.
Are we libertarian yet?
Yes a very nice quote.
“They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. “
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS SPREAD UPON THE EARTH BUT MEN DO NOT SEE IT. Jesus
I also also believe the reason Men do not see Heaven is because they prefer to see and live in Hell. We all have a choice to live in Hell or Heaven.
I choose Heaven.
“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”
Robert Jastrow
“Don’t want to be your Slave”
M. Jagger
C.S. Lewis is worth reading in his entirety, fiction and non-fiction alike. He saw and understood the problems of the modern world long before many others did.
.......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.
“It’s actually not very hard at all
What’s hard is making it feel hard.
You can’t understand what I’m saying”
Eminence Front
THE WHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HTVMh7fur4
To do is to beSartre.
Do be do be doSinatra.
CS Lewis ping
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When I first saw that quote TR immediately came to mind. Then I saw it was Lewis.
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Lewis’ “tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims” is itself a relic of a (comparably) more kindly era. The demonic twits infesting our world today are not looking to redeem anyone.
My favorite quote: “Faith, Hope and Love abide. The Greatest of these is Love’’.-St. Paul.
“Never sleep with a woman who kisses frogs in hopes of getting a prince. She’ll leave you with warts on your lips”..........”Anonymous”
Ditto.
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