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C.S Lewis said it best!....(vanity)
Monday January 3, 2010

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


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1 posted on 01/03/2011 9:49:41 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike
One of my all time favorite quotes.

Another from Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
2 posted on 01/03/2011 9:52:34 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Bigtigermike

Ha! My bad! I’m still living in 2010!


3 posted on 01/03/2011 9:53:03 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

The most dangerous phrase in the English Language — “There oughtta be a law....”


4 posted on 01/03/2011 9:53:56 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Bigtigermike

Brilliant!


5 posted on 01/03/2011 9:54:26 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: Bigtigermike
Mencken was pithier:

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."

6 posted on 01/03/2011 9:55:39 AM PST by Huck (Do talk radio hosts get paid extra when they use the word "impugn"? It sure seems like it.)
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To: Bigtigermike

“omnipotent moral busybodies.”

Is there any better description of the nanny-statists than this? I don’t think so.


7 posted on 01/03/2011 9:56:20 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (The more the plans fail the more the planners plan - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Uncle Ike

>>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.”


8 posted on 01/03/2011 9:56:46 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Nothing sharpens the mind like not being able to get a job. /Nonstatist)
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To: Bigtigermike

One of my favorites. Thank you... I now have the rest of it.


9 posted on 01/03/2011 9:57:48 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Uncle Ike
The most dangerous phrase in the English Language — “There oughtta be a law....”


10 posted on 01/03/2011 10:00:19 AM PST by mc5cents (Government doesn't solve problems, it subsidizes them. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Personal Responsibility

“Ominpotent moral busybodies” describes Nancy Pelosi without any morals!


11 posted on 01/03/2011 10:00:58 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

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.


12 posted on 01/03/2011 10:01:24 AM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Bigtigermike

But the sheer superlative nature of the quote gives you automatic pardon for the wrong date. ;D

Thank you


13 posted on 01/03/2011 10:01:35 AM PST by Shimmer1 (If my body dies, then let it die, but let my country live.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

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.


14 posted on 01/03/2011 10:01:56 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Yes, as a matter of fact, what you do in your bedroom IS my business.)
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To: Bigtigermike

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.


15 posted on 01/03/2011 10:02:20 AM PST by savagesusie
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To: Bigtigermike

bookmark.


16 posted on 01/03/2011 10:04:04 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: Bigtigermike
Let's all laugh at Sarah Palin because she reads this "children's books" author. < /The View harpy mode>
17 posted on 01/03/2011 10:09:09 AM PST by KarlInOhio (All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. -Frederic Bastiat)
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To: Bigtigermike

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”


18 posted on 01/03/2011 10:11:14 AM PST by Mom MD (Jesus is the Light of the world!)
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To: KarlInOhio

Yep.....Sarah is an idiot for liking an brilliant intellectual who was......oops! Libs get it wrong once again!


19 posted on 01/03/2011 10:20:24 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

“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.”


20 posted on 01/03/2011 10:24:01 AM PST by denydenydeny (Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak-Adams)
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