Quotes by Lewis, Wyndham

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if t >>

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Quotations about Liberty

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. >>

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government >>

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. >>

Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute! At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders --now that we are become men like gods. It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.

Lewis, Wyndham