"It is because they have no Oyarsa,'..." - Quote by C S Lewis
It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.
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“The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.”
“Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.”
“The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you neednot try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.”
More on Authority
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
“I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.”
“I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.”
More on Power
“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.”
“We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.”
“In other relationships, it may be permissible to overpower people, but not between people who are living together. That relationship is supposed to be between equals.”