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. CHESTERTONI 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
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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