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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere 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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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