"The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved……" — C.S. Lewis
"The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis has 1,827 quotes on this site.
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I…
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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 Enslaved Quotes
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Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
— Aeschylus
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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is…
— William Blake
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If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is…
— Maya Angelou
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Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect…
— Susan B. Anthony
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If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities…
— Jonas Salk
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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their…
— Nhat Hanh
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Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
— Lin Yutang
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for…
— Thomas Sowell
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