Quote by

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.
– CS Lewis

Related Quotes:

  1. The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
  2. A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order. – Jodi Picoult
  3. The fear of judgment is the ultimate robber of self-expression and authenticity – Dr Jacinta Mpalyenkana
  4. Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond. – Rynosuke Akutagawa
  5. Worn over the man’s head like a deranged bank robber is a pair of pink cotton panties. – Dave Lundy
  6. The only time you’ve been under me is when I’ve been inside of you and even then, you’re never truly under me. I always remain under you. – Kenya Wright
  7. Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me. – CS Lewis
  8. God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. He is intricately involved in our lives and for that alone, we should be thankful. – Robin Bertram
  9. Admit it. You can’t have everything. You can’t do everything. You can’t be everywhere. You are not omnipotent, you are mortal. – Bhavik Sarkhedi
  10. If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded. – Kevin Michel
  11. Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies. – Dejan Stojanovic
  12. The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. – Andrew Murray
  13. I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace. – Sri Chinmoy
  14. I have three powers to win the world: my omnipotent love, my omnipresent kindness, and my omniscient compassion. – Debasish Mridha
  15. [God] holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless, precious, eternal gift of salvation, and He bids you to take it without money and without price. – Billy Graham
  16. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. – EM Forster
  17. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? – W Somerset Maugham
  18. God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners. – Criss Jami
  19. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. – Ayn Rand
  20. Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent. – Billy Graham
  21. We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code. – Billy Graham
  22. When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror. – Peter Boghossian
  23. Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
  24. There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena – Friedrich Nietzsche
  25. The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
  26. I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
  27. An oligarchy does not require a good and moral citizenry but a Constitutional Republic does. If we lose our moral comp???, we lose our country. – R A Delmonico
  28. A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present. – Michael J Marx
  29. Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn. – Rico Dasheem
  30. The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. – CS Lewis
  31. The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. – CS Lewis
  32. If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality. – CS Lewis
  33. …the standard for moral behaviour must be part of God’s nature. He did not create morality, he is morality. – Lewis N Roe
  34. from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go. – Margaret Atwood
  35. Dune was a world of paradox now-”a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power. – Frank Herbert
  36. Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination! – Israelmore Ayivor
  37. When you GIVE under -œcompulsion- or -œGrudgingly- you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving. – John Paul Warren
  38. If I had a wish, I would turn you to a pair of shoes to keep you under my feet and you get an opportunity to be under the bed too. – Pushpa Rana
  39. Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man. – Robert G Ingersoll
  40. When we are under a tree, we are under a temple, a temple of countless goodnesses! – Mehmet Murat ildan

More Quotes

, , , ,