"It may be better to live under robber……" — C.S. Lewis
"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own…
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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More Barons Quotes
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I think that the days when newspaper barons could basically click their fingers and governments would snap to attention have…
— Nick Clegg
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons,…
— Willie Mays
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I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in…
— Willie Mays
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Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds…
— Edward Abbey
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Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers…
— Carl Sagan
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In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only…
— Daniel Guerin
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The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their…
— Joey Reiman
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According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes.…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe,…
— Robert Evans
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I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.
— Dick Gephardt
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[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we…
— William Kristol
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It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in…
— Joseph Sobran
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