My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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More Quotes from C. S. Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.
Surely what a man does when he is in an uncomfortable situation is the best evidence for the sort of man he is.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen — not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
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Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
You don't have to be big or well known to be great.
Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.