On Palin's Reading List, C.S. Lewis

WSJ ^

[roses of sharon]

"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 own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis

[WestTexasWend]

What’s on Behar’s reading list?

[Cicero]

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.”

—C. S. Lewis

[bareford101]

Lewis wrote much more than children books. His book “Mere Christianity” is classic... and read and reread in my home.

[Irenic]

OK, it’s Hollywood and it’s just a movie but I enjoyed Shadowlands a lot. :p

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Shadowlands_%28film%29

[Fester Chugabrew]

What’s on Behar’s reading list?

I'll wager Whoopie Goldberg's Big Book of Manners.

[hinckley buzzard]

I guarantee, "Abolition of Man" 'The Screwtape Letters" and "Mere Christianity" are not not on Kneepad Behar's reading list.

[onyx]

The lovely photo of her at the link, accompanying this well-written column.

[porter_knorr]

That’s up next on my netflix queue

[hinckley buzzard]

"Shadowlands" was far more than a Hollywood movie.

[Irenic]

I have that on VHS, DVD...I’ve watched it a gazillion times and he and the boy, at the end, make me cry GOBS...every time! It’s a box of hankies movie!

[GreyFriar]

Marx, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Guevera, Chomsky

[Jude in WV]

mine, too.

[Always A Marine]

You already quoted one of my favorite C.S. Lewis passages for children in part. Here's a fuller version:

"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

[Chode]

my favorite C.S.Lewis quote

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Best movie Debra Winger ever made.

[rfp1234]

I propose that any post mentioning Boy Jehar be labeled with a 50-Gallon-Drum-Barf-Alert!

[Tucker39]

“Mere Christianity” is the book that led Chuck Colson to Christ.

[La Lydia]

Behar might enjoy the The Screwtape Letters. At least she could relate.

[Keflavik76]

In their attempts to mock Sarah Palin, they mock themselves and are completely unaware of their lunacy.