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Wed Aug 28 2013 21:09:35 GMT-0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
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Name/Title
C. S. Lewis
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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. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet ... likelier to make a Hell of earth.
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Abuse of Power
Purpose
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tyranny    oppression    morality    good-intensions   
Quote Source
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
Created
Thursday, 29 of August, 2013 04:14:02 (GMT-0000)