No Man Fit to Be Masters

Topic : Slavery

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.

C.S. Lewis in “Equality” from Present Concerns, quoted in Christianity Today, February 3, 1989, p. 31