Government And Society Of all tyrannies, a tyran..

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Government And Society 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. C.S.Lewis

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Bang on.

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I'd like to know what the context of this quote is. I think he maybe referring to the British Empire - without any context it sounds like bourgeois waffle. I'd take a vapid liberal nanny state over a brutal tyranny any day thanks.

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@handdrawn A valid point but I do enjoy the quote. Sadly my cynicism leads me to believe that most things that the government enforce on us for our own good usually just involve a new form if taxation being hoisted upon us.

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