Rohit

“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. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)

“The sternest commissar and the wildest hippie both share the same daydream: that a thing can be worth other than people are willing to give for it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
― Edmund Burke