“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.” ~CS Lewis
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. - Robert Browning #FavoriteQuotes
“Usually we praise only to be praised.” ―François, duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, Maxim 146 #FavoriteQuotes
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” `― Frank Herbert, Dune #FavoriteQuotes