When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTONTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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