Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Clive Staples Lewis on the impossibility of making people good by law

Engraving of L. H. Marqueste's sculpture “Perseus, the Gorgon Slayer”: a nude Perseus in a winged helmet stands over Medusa.

You cannot make people good by law, and without good people there can be no good society. That is why we must think about the second thing: morality within the individual.

Clive Staples Lewis

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