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. CHESTERTONThanks are the highest form of thought.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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 cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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