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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONCatholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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