"For the power of Man to make..." - Quote by C S Lewis
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
More by C S Lewis
“Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros.”
“Total war is the most humane in the long run.”
“I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.”
More on Power
“If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.”
“I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.”
“We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.”
More on Control
“Since you cannot control the weather, or the traffic,or the one you love, or your neighbors, or your boss,then you must learn to control you...the one whose response to the difficulties of life REALLY counts.”
“Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.”
“He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”