Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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