Saturday 25 December 2010

A quote from CS Lewis that has a lot of relevance in mental health and rights

"...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." - C.S. Lewis

Reposted from Mary Maddock's (Mind Freedom Ireland's) Facebook status

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We It comes in part from an appreciation that no one can truly sign their own work. Everything is many influences coming together to the one moment where a work exists. The other is a begrudging acceptance that my work was never my own. There is another consciousness or non-corporeal entity that helps and harms me in everything I do. I am not I because of this force or entity. I am "we"