C. S. Lewis Quotes About Slavery

• And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, War, Ambition

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Slavery, Belief

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

• I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Children, Hate

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