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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

G. K. Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand

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