C. S. Lewis Quotes About Slaves

• I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Thinking, People

• It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Soul, Puppets

  "The Abolition of Man". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1943.

• Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, People, Slavery

  C. S. Lewis (1987). “Present Concerns”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Religion, Slave

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol V: The Horse and his Boy”, p.100, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

• In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers - a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians - a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Men, Doctors

• Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

  C. S. Lewis

  Want, Slave, Utility

  C. S. Lewis (1997). “The voyage of the Dawn Treader”, HarperCollins Publishers

• Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Tyrants, Screwtape Letters

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