Quote of the Week - C.S. Lewis on Tyranny
"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."
From God in the Dock (1948)
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