Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Of Burke And Lewis And O


Or Edmund Burke who said:


"I must bear with infirmities until they fester into
crimes."


And then there's this from C.S. Lewis, via a reader:


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.

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