C. S. Lewis Quotes About Freedom

• 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

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

• I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Freedom, Being Free, Purpose

• 'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

  C. S. Lewis

  Freedom, Tyrants, Liberty

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.333, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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