A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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