Monday, July 27, 2009

The Disasterous Results of being Preoccupied With Your Own Rights

"If all men stood talking of their rights before they went up a mast or down a sewer or stoked a furnace or joined an army, we should all perish. . . . The man preoccupied with his own rights is not only a disastrous, but a very unlovely, object; indeed, one of the worst mischief's we do by treating a man unjustly is that we force him to be thus preoccupied."

C. S. Lewis, in The Quotable Lewis, page 520.

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