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.
G. K. CHESTERTONMoral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The past is not what it was.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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