C. S. Lewis Quotes About Democracy

• Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Thinking, Democracy

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of the commonwealth, and so wise that the commonwealth needs their advice. That is, in my opinion, the false, romantic doctrine of democracy. On the other hand, you may believe fallen men to be so wicked that not one of them can be trusted with any irresponsible power over his fellows.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Believe, Men

• The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ethos, Law, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.100, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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