"I don't deserve a share in governing a hen-roost, much less a nation. Nor do most people β all the people who believe advertisements, and think in catchwords and spread rumors. The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters."
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C. S. Lewis
1898 β 1963
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