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The modern state exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. we are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. there is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'mind your own business.' our whole lives are their business.
-C. S. Lewis
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The Modern State Exists Not To Protect

C. S. Lewis
The modern state exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good - anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. hence the new name 'leaders' for those who were once 'rulers'. we are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. there is nothing left of which we can say to them, 'mind your own business.' our whole lives are their business.
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