"I never fully understood it till my..." - Quote by C S Lewis
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.
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“Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object – we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering.”
“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.”
“It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
More on Freedom
“The world says: "You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
“External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.”
“The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.”
More on Control
“Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.”
“Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?”
“My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.”